Help Us Prioritize 32-bit HA Add-ons and Shape Our 64-bit iHost Hardware

iHost Open Source Project HA over iHost
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I think.it is worthy porting the current Ihost as well due to several.reasons:

  1. It will assure, and convey a message of long term.support of Sonoff products and help.build loyalty to Ihost and Sonoff, in general.t.
  2. It will support more adaptation.of Ihost hardware for HA. My assumption is that the HA32 bit sunset announcement might have slowed down potential.procurement of the hardware. For example, I was also planning to.purchase an additional.Ihost for more projects.but I am.now waiting for the new hardware.
  3. I recently checked online, there was a shortage of HA green.
  4. Ihost is still a very capable hardware, well built and comes bundled with what other hardware sells separately.
    There may be a risk.of the current Ihost eating a a part of the new Ihost market. The differentiation.can.be on the pricing.

Thank you very much for your feedback. These are good points.

But we really can’t give any promises right now. As you can see, we released iHost three years ago, but we have never promised that iHost will always get updates of eWeLink CUBE OS for like 3 years, 5 years, or 8 years, despite the fact that we are continuing developing eWeLink CUBE OS.

What we can promise is that iHost has been open sourced, and it will stay this way. Anyone could build a Linux distribution for iHost, or port other Linux OS to iHost, like we did with HA over iHost.

Btw. Are you planning to.push software update for the Sonoff Hub Pro to rnable it to be used as a router? The NS Panel.Pro-like firmware.

“Sonoff Hub Pro”? You mean SONOFF Zigbee-Bridge Pro? I am working on iHost (and will probably on ZBBridge-U, NSPanel Pro), so I don’t know the roadmap for other SONOFF products. But I know the open source project Tasmota supports Zigbee-Bridge Pro. So it should be possible to flash Zigbee Router firmware into Zigbee-Bridge Pro.

Please note: SONOFF Zigbee-Bridge Pro is using TI CC2652p chip instead of Silicon Labs MG21.

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Hi everyone, and especially @Unnamedi @zferenczi84 :slight_smile:

We have released eWeLink-Remote Gateway add-on v0.2.0. This time, eWeLink-Remote Gateway will not just working on HA over iHost, but also on other Home Assistant OS running on ARM64 and AMD64 devices.

Here is release note:

  1. Add-on adds support for x64 architecture
  2. Optimizes the default name display of the eWeLink-Remote sub-device entity
  3. After the eWeLink-Remote sub-device entity name is changed, the entity name associated in the automation will change accordingly (after the entity name is changed, the automation can run normally but the UI display will change to Unknown trigger. After re-saving, the UI display can return to normal)
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