Basics - raspberry pi always booting Home assistant

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I am very confused. I have a PI 4 … and installed home assistant on it…
Then on a different computer went to the 8123 page and made a user.

So now on my laptop i can access and make a dashboard.
But on the touch screen of my PI i still have that booting screen, and every time i start the pi… i get that booting screen,.

I thought it should go back to the pi and then on the pi i could go to the browser and have HA dashboard on the touchscreen connected to my pi…
But how do i get there… it probably is something basic… but i am confused
to install home assistant i flashed haos_rpi4-64-11.3.img.xz with balena etcher to my SSD… because home assistant didn;t show up through the raspberry pi imager.

2

Home Assistant is headless. The Pi is the server. It doesn’t run a GUI/browser or anything else.

You configure it with another PC/Laptop/Phone/Tablet - that’s it.

3

but hoe does he do it then?

4

so i should run Home assistant on my NAS not on my PI

5

Totally up to you, but HAOS and HA are headless. No GUI.

6

He runs pi os light on the pi, and already has Home Assistant… somewhere else. He only runs a browser.

When you use HAOS, you have no control (and no woorries) over the OS. So you cannot have a GUI or browser. If you use another install type, e.g. Docker, you can run more on the PI, but probably not on a pi3. I’d guess a pi4 would be minimum for both to run smooth. And you need to manage the OS and other requirements yourself.

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so i need to install HA on my Pi as Docker and then i can run HA and have the browser on my Pi… but it probably then is smarter to have HA in a docker on my NAS