I am new to HA and RPi and am having trouble getting it to boot with a connected monitor. The Pi 4b works fine with monitor and keyboard running PI OS but will only boot into HA if the hdmi is unplugged and acessed from a windows PC headless. I have tried reinstalling both from PI imager on the PC and installing direct on the PI by holding down the shift key at boot but both act the same.I have an official PI psu. Am I missing somthing?
There’s nothing to see on the Pi to be honest. It just boots to a prompt and that is where it sits for all eternity. The GUI and config is done through a browser.
Ah so it wont run as a self contained entity with local control then.
Nope - absolutely nothing to see
Thanks I’ll stop looking then
A display and keyboard are useful for command line debugging if things go horribly wrong and you lose access to the web interface. But 9 times out of 10 this can also be done remotely via an SSH addon.