Pi 3 with touchscreen 7" - preinstalled in 8GB SDcard - how to proceed with HA without breaking the touchscreen

@Tinkerer
Thank you for your fast response.
Seems I have a knot in my thinking.

Since I have an ssd running raspbi 64 bit and docker with hello world I struggle to understand how to get the HA image running in the docker env.
When I start on that page (which is were I was when up and ready with boot from ssd, rdp etc,) I read that I have to download, use balena and do another image install which would overwrite what i have already.
The snippet with config etc. is fine and I could in principle put the path to config file etc.
However, I seem to be too stupid to get the image downloaded or understand how it is supposed to be set up. Sorry if I am not precise enough

You’re stuck at reading the HAOS install docs.

I linked you to the Docker install docs (aka Container).

If you already use compose files, just scroll down a little to the compose docs.

Alrighty - thank you again - so compose next - you are so kind. thank you, may i bother you again? guess I should just stop posting an making @Tinkerer, guess you are already slightly overrun by me - thank you for all of your advice :slight_smile:

Thank you all for your help.

Seems I am up and running a raspberry pi

-with boot from sd card into ssd
-desktop and touchscreen (which is really of no use as you said if the chromium brings cpu to 70+ °C and stalling everything)
-docker homeassistant
-HACS
-Tuya local (not yet finished) (real p.i.t.a. to get this id and secrets) - since I ordered with woox now I have to unpair repair with tuya hope that works.

:smiley: goal was less accounts - lool now I have three more (well GitHub I had already, tuya and homeassistant) - nevermind - from the dashboard I can see already a lot of devices, ‘how cool is that’ I thought when I first logged in.

So next I guess is getting the zigbee in and then which is also in alexa skills a challenge the lidl and medion stuff.

So hellis81 mentioned some people say a pi 4 is not even strong enough for HA, how would you be able to tell the pi 3 is on limits? when it stalls?

Thank you Tinkerer for getting me to the correct part of docker compose, you were right I was lost in the all the links and instructions.

Not sure what you think - but I thought with your help I got something up and running within ‘no time’ if 3 days is no time:-D Without you I would still trial and error.

Warmest regards have a nice Sunday evening and a good start into the next week.

Annette

@Edwin_D Thank you as well, seems I missed out on you with my thank you.

I believe you notice it on reboots and when loading the developer tools → states page.
When you have accumulated a lot of entities then this page can take a while to load.

I have once tried this with a RPi3 and the official 7" touchscreen, and it worked.

I used raspbian light, HA core and the bare minimum to be able to use a browser so I could display HA.
Then I created a tabbed html page for HA and my music system (didn’t work well as an iframe in HA)

This was as a test and just out of curiosity to see if it would work.