homee Brain 2

IoT Gateway based on NXP i.MX 6UltraLite CPU

Your Gateway ...		... for Home Automation
This homee Brain 2 gateway is your perfect partner for intelligent home automation. Besides the function as a gateway, actors and sensors of different manufacturers can be combined. It offers highlights such as Wifi, Bluetooth, IR Remote Control, temperature, air pressure and humidity sensors, microphone, as well as camera. Other home automation wireless standards like EnOcean, ZigBee or Z-Wave can be added by additional cubes. Thanks to its numerous wireless communication possibilites, the Gateway is perfectly suited for versatile IoT applications. The homee Brain 2's operating system is a customized Linux kernel. It supports all interfaces, guaranteeing an easy software development without a deeper understanding of hardware.		Innovative Applications Processor The gateway is based on the NXP i.MX 6UltraLite applications processor of the very successful i.MX 6 series. It is based on an ARM Cortex-A7 MP core ans has 128kB L2 Cache. ➜ more information on NXP's i.MX 6UltraLite applications processor Our product portfolio includes another module, which is based on the same processor: ➜ efus™A7UL This COM module is well suited for applications in medical and industrial engineering because of its various communication interfaces and the possibility to connect a touch display. Long-Term Availability to 2030 Another characteristic of the i.MX 6UL is the long-time availability to at least 2030.

Your Gateway ...

... for Home Automation

This homee Brain 2 gateway is your perfect partner for intelligent home automation. Besides the function as a gateway, actors and sensors of different manufacturers can be combined.

It offers highlights such as Wifi, Bluetooth, IR Remote Control, temperature, air pressure and humidity sensors, microphone, as well as camera.

Other home automation wireless standards like EnOcean, ZigBee or Z-Wave can be added by additional cubes.

Thanks to its numerous wireless communication possibilites, the Gateway is perfectly suited for versatile IoT applications.

The homee Brain 2's operating system is a customized Linux kernel. It supports all interfaces, guaranteeing an easy software development without a deeper understanding of hardware.

Innovative Applications Processor

The gateway is based on the NXP i.MX 6UltraLite applications processor of the very successful i.MX 6 series. It is based on an ARM Cortex-A7 MP core ans has 128kB L2 Cache.

➜ more information on NXP's i.MX 6UltraLite applications processor

Our product portfolio includes another module, which is based on the same processor:

➜ efus™A7UL

This COM module is well suited for applications in medical and industrial engineering because of its various communication interfaces and the possibility to connect a touch display.

Long-Term Availability to 2030

Another characteristic of the i.MX 6UL is the long-time availability to at least 2030.

	homee Brain 2
State	Production
CPU
CPU	NXP i.MX 6
Core	ARM Cortex-A7
No of Cores	UltraLite
Frequency	max. 528MHz
L2-Cache	128KB
Operating System
Linux	customized kernel
Memory
Flash	256MB
RAM	512MB
Interfaces
WiFi	IEEE802.11b/g/n
USB Host	customized connector
USB Device	1x
Audio	Microphone
Camera analog/digital	0/1
additional Interfaces	Bluetooth BT4.0, IRDA Temperature, Humidity, Pressure EnOcean, ZigBee, Z-Wave
Display
Common
Supply Voltage	+5V DC/ ±5%
Operating Temperature	0°C - +70°C
Size	47x47mm (lxb)
Long Term Availability	2035

The Linux BSP (v1.3) contains the customized Linux Kernel Source Code (v2.6.38) and our Cross-Toolchain. Additionally, our standard Binaries of the Linux Kernel Images, U-Boot and a JFFS2 Root Filesystem are available in the download area. Our multiplatform-linux-f+s-V2.0 Release holds a customized F&S Buildroot (2012.08), which integrates the PicoCOMA5 and makes it possible to create an own customized Root Filesystem. The standard configuration (picocom4_std_defconfig) installs i.a. the following features:

Busybox 1.20.x, gdb 6.8, alsa-utils, gstreamer, madplay, directFB, fbv, X.Org rel-7.5, Matchbox, feh, X11vnc, openssl, openssh, freetype, glib2, tslib, libv4l, ncurses, can-utils, iproute2, ftpd, httpd, telnet, tftp

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You will always find support in our Forum.

Recent Contributions

17 Apr, 15:12	External RTC Support Now Available
08 Apr, 13:41	F&S i.MX8M-Mini Yocto Pre Release 2025.04 (fsimx8mm-Y2025.04-pre)
03 Apr, 15:54	How far along is Linux v6.6.x for PicoCores?
03 Apr, 11:23	Custom variant for PicoCoreMX6ULL100
01 Apr, 11:37	Phy link never came up / pcie failed with error -110
01 Apr, 11:35	F&S i.MX8M-Plus Yocto Pre-Release 2025.03 (fsimx8mp-Y2025.03-pre)
24 Mar, 13:17	WEC 2013 Firewall FWS0: How to make service start automatically
24 Mar, 11:24	Touch
18 Mar, 08:32	Unable to build u-boot for PicoCore™MX8MM
11 Mar, 11:43	EDMA SAI1 error