Using a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 7" touchscreen display makes a perfect self-housed kiosk for HA. Unfortunately, HAOS has no support for this. I was able to get it working with Core, but Add-ons, etc is very limited. So I installed Supervised mode, adding over-complexity to what should be a simple install.
All that is needed is an Add-On that can install a container with a Chromium browser that self-boots to display the dashboard.
I have a couple of these. I just do the Raspberry Pi OS install and use the browser, run HA elsewhere.
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The idea is to make HA run on a Raspberry PI w/touchscreen to mimic a Google Nest or Amazon Alexa. – all in one unit.
Hi. I installed the Glances add on and are able to show a dashboard using a docker cli.
But to show it, I need to connect a keyboard to the RPi, enter a command line and execute the docker command in interactive mode…
Not very practical, but works to at least have some info about the RPi “technical status” status.
It’s a pity that it’s not even possible to autorun a command on HAOS right after system startup.
The only way I found was by using another Raspberry Pi. It’s kind of sad that getting this directly to work on the RPi which is running Home Assistant is not supported out of the box.