I am going to preface this with saying I am a total noob to Home Assistant . I had an old Surface 3 laying around and thought it would be a perfect device to mount on a wall and run Home Assistant through. It’s a compact computer with a decent screen and can be left plugged in. I managed to install Home Assistant on it last night however, I now realized I might not actually be able to access the GUI from the Surface 3 and should have installed this on a different device and just used the Surface 3 as the interface. Is that the case and there is no way around this or is there a way to access the interface using the command line on the device that Home Assistant is installed on? Any advice would be great.
You can’t access the GUI from the command line - HA is designed to run headless. Depending on your install, you may be able to run a browser on the Surface and use that. I think. It’s a very convoluted way of doing things.
Possible way is to run HA Supervised on Debian OS. Then you do have a browser.
But, all at your own risk, with Supervised you are responsible to maintain you system yourself.
Additionally to what my fellow users: HA does not have a GUI.
As suggested, you could do some sort of installation that also allows you to install a browser on the same device.
Fair enough. I should have done some more research before installing it on the Surface 3. I’ll probably end up going the Raspberry Pi route and use the surface on the wall still of the interface. Thanks for the info!