HA on Surface Go with other stuff

Installation
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Hey there!

I am starting wit HA in the next two weeks and I am a bit confused wich installation path i shoudl go.

I want to use a surface go as hardware (8gb ram). The touchscreen should to be usable as dashboard for all running applications. I have 2x Aqara TRVs, 3 zigbee window contacts and 3 zigbee temp.sensors which should wokr together. So far so good. Node Red would be nice. Also i want to run octoprint on the surface so i can get rid of my Raspi 3b.

My current options are:

  1. Ubuntu + Docker with Home Assistant, Mosqitto and Octoprint
  2. Proxmox: VM with HA OS (and ZHA) , VM withOctoprint

I never worked with Proxmox so i am not sure if i can use the Proxmox server also as a “Client” Dashboard (is a browser, drivers for touchsreen, etc. availabel?)

What would you recommend?
Thx in advance!

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Try with official supervised method on debian, i thinks is very flexible at lest for my case it has been working flawlessly

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Unfortunately you cannot use the same machine as server backend (HAOS) and frontend (HA webGUI) operation, if HA is a bare metal install.

You require Proxmox on the Surface to run HAOS in a VM plus a VM for Windows. You need 2G RAM for Proxmox plus 2G for HAOS plus 4G for Windows. You could consider installing Android on a 2G VM and forego Windows altogether.

If you have the core i3 edition, Proxmox might work, but you really need a system which has at least 4-cores/8-threads. I believe the Surface tablet does not have this kind of firepower.

Consider a NUC style system for HAOS server and Surface as your HA frontend.