So, I plan on buying a Raspberry 5 to manage my zigbee network. To do so I plane on using HA. I am tempted to use Homeassistant OS for RPI, but I have some questions.
From what I saw there’s no graphic interface accessible directly on the PI with a screen ? I’m wondering because I want my setup to be multi use, i.e light youtube browsing, email checking, some office work.
If there isn’t a graphic interace directly accessible from the PI, I plane on using docker container on Raspberry Pi OS for example. Toughts on this workaround ? Will the power consumption sky rocket due to a full OS constantly running, even with no screen hooked up ?
There is no GUI for the HA console. It runs headless and you connect to it over the network through HTTPS or various other protocols usually either through the companion app or a browser.
If you need a gui console on the same hardware then you’ll need some solution like a hypervisor to run HAOS as a VM.
Yes this works, and works well. But realize you may be taxing the box a bit depending on your use case.
HA backup is hardware agnostic. So if you find our later the Pi isn’t doing it for you, you can easily move to some other gear.
Thanks for the explanation. I think i’ll investigate the hypervisor route when I get my hand on a Pi 5. It’ll be hard I think, as I’m fairly new to everything Linux related. If I don’t manage to do it i’ll stick to a basic HA OS setup.
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