This is a good idea. You don't want to have a full-on Linux distro controlling your lights. You want something you can set up and forget.

You will feel a world of pain when there is some bug, and it will take you 8 hours to figure out the issues so that you can turn your lights on. The simplier, the better for these kinds of applications.

Are you able to run your own software on that? It looks fully integrated to me