Home Assistant Yellow’s CM5 Ready: Full Stock Available Now at Seeed!

Home Assistant has announced a significant upgrade to its Yellow platform with Compute Module 5 (CM5) support in HAOS 14. This expansion brings enhanced capabilities while maintaining strong support for existing CM4 users.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11/27/home-assistant-yellow-gets-cm5-support

Key Updates

Core Updates:

Home Assistant Yellow now supports CM5 (Compute Module 5)
Support will be available in the HAOS 14 release

CM5 Advantages:

Higher performance, up to 3x faster for ESPHome compilation
Better local speech-to-text processing
Suitable for power users’ needs

HAOS 14 Additional Updates:

Added support for Hailo-8 AI accelerator
AI capabilities for Pi 5

This update reinforces Home Assistant’s commitment to providing users with scalable, future-proof smart home solutions. While CM5 offers significant performance benefits for power users, CM4 remains a viable option for standard installations, demonstrating Home Assistant’s balanced approach to hardware evolution. Apart from that, CM4 production will continue and Raspberry Pi commits to support CM4 until 2034.

How to Install HAOS on CM5

Note: It’s necessary to use the latest version of rpiboot when installing Home Assistant OS for CM5. Download the latest Version.

For full details on how to set up your Home Assistant Yellow. Visit detailed Wiki.