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
Security
Operating System
Linux	customized kernel
Memory
RAM	512MB
Flash	256MB
Interfaces
WiFi	IEEE802.11b/g/n
USB Host	customized connector
USB Device	1x
Audio	Microphone
Camera	0/1
More	Bluetooth BT4.0, IRDA Temperature, Humidity, Pressure EnOcean, ZigBee, Z-Wave
Display
Common
V_IN	+5V DC/ ±5%
T_AMB	0°C - +70°C
Size	47x47mm (lxb)
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

Link to the Forum

You will always find support in our Forum.

Recent Contributions

28 Apr, 09:04	New F&S Development Machine - Fedora40
22 Apr, 08:35	Mismatch between eFusA9 Hardware Doc and eFusA9 GPIO reference card
22 Apr, 07:15	F&S i.MX8MM FreeRTOS Release V2021.07
13 Apr, 12:17	GPIO Pull-Up/Down, input voltage
10 Apr, 10:58	EMMC Error Check
08 Apr, 13:35	F&S i.MX8ULP Yocto Release 2025.11.1 (fsimx8ulp-Y2025.11.1)
08 Apr, 13:34	i.MX8M-Mini Yocto Releases Y2026.06 (Yocto 5.0)
08 Apr, 12:51	SPI + DMA
07 Apr, 10:43	Boot from sd card
07 Apr, 08:00	Doubt about CSI