Hardware load on HA

Hardware
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Hi,

Can someone please guide me on this

If I’m using a raspberry pi4 with 4 GB ram & 128GB SD card combined to run a home assistant attached to a 15inch portable touch screen monitor.

I just want to know will the system be able to run HA altogether use the touch screen monitor as my HA dashboard??

Note:-I will be having more than 50 + smart devices that includes cameras sensors and especially lots of smart switches!!(Considering the system load)

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Hi, Rajdeep, Sorry to say that is not something Home Assistant was designed to do easily. HA is built to run 24/7 on a small machine without display. The most used config, HAOS, is a lightweight OS with just enough to run HA to keep things lightweight. So there is no GUI to run a browser on to access HA.

For that you need a fullblown OS with GUI. An option would be to run HAOS in a VM, but that is not possible on a RPI. So then you’d need to run HA as a container, leaving you in charge of configuring the OS with all requirements. You also lose the ability to install addons. You’ll need to have the skills to spin up your own containders to do the things the addons do.

So running HAOS without a monitor, and configure a tablet to run a browser in kios mode is much easier than what you have in mind.

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Thanks for the suggestions…I will follow it.

Another question

What if I have lots of smart hardware so instead I run HA on a mini pc instead of RPi And use another RPi with a touch monitor to run only the dashboard via RPi OS browser in kiosk mode.

Can that be done?

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That will be way better :wink:

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I saw a post somewhere about an addon or integration that allowed it somehow, so it might be possible.
Try to search the forum.

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Found about this to run a seperate HA dashboard in a touch screen monitor

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In my defence, that has been on Github less then a month. :slight_smile: Good catch!

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Did not notice that one too… :smiley:

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I am the author of the HAOS-kosk Add-On https://github.com/puterboy/HAOS-kiosk/blob/443336419f859a714eae90e504c6f42d69c20719/README.md

I have not tested it on a touchscreen (since I don’t have one) - just an HDMI monitor plus generic keyboard and mouse.

Would be great if someone could test it.
If it doesn’t work, I am certainly happy to work with any tester to extend it to work with a touchscreen keyboard/mouse equivalent

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