Can you run Fully Kiosk on main Home Assistant device, or does it need to be separate?

Hello,
I am brand new to Home Assistant and I would like to confirm my plans for a home assistant setup before spending the money.

After finally being pushed to the edge with Alexa constantly bombarding me with ads or suggestions about a third of the time I try to to use it, I have decided to kick all my Alexa devices to the curb. I am sure my neighbors will be happy as I will no longer be shouting at alexa to shut the “F” up at 11 o’clock at night because I made the mistake of asking it to set an alarm or turn off a light and it proceeds to start rambling about all the other useless BS it can do.

I plan on getting the Odroid 4GB enthusiast bundle and mounting it on the back of an Asus 15” touchscreen monitor to replace an Alexa Show in my kitchen.

I would like it to be the main Home Assistant hub and also run Fully Kiosk. I have been researching for the past couple days, and the one thing I haven’t been able to confirm is, is this possible? Or do I need a separate device to run Fully kiosk?

It seems like everyone on Youtube uses a separate android tablet to run Fully Kiosk. However, I would like the bigger screen and don’t see a reason to have an additional device if it isn’t needed.

Any clarification on this would be greatly appreciated!

Home assisant is intended to be run headless as a standalone server. You connect to that from a web browser (like FKB) or the Companion App. Ha in fact only runs a command line server on the local machine. If you watch it from a monitor you just have current logging, you’re not ‘live’ on the server console itself.

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Hi Doug, welcome to the forum!

What Nathan says + a normal Home Assistant (HA) runs mainly on some sort of Linux.
FKB & the Companion app need Android.

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Thanks for the info!

I was a network engineer for 20 years, and I am pretty technical, but just learning this platform and wasn’t fully connecting the dots on that.

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