Pi 500 + Proxmox = VM1 Home assistant + VM2 Desktop < Does this make sense

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I got a Pi 500 + pi screen and I wish to use the pi screen, keyboard and mouse to access home assistant.

I’m completely new to Pi and am not a professional in any sense. So clumsy me I didn’t understand beforehand that Home Assistant is a headless (not operating with a dedicated monitor or keyboard and mouse)

Since I’m off grid with no reception I can only install Home assistant at home. I wish to bring the Pi500 + keyboard, mouse and screen to the place where we have our cabin and operate HA and connect our smart devices to monitor Humidity Temperature etc from the Pi screen which is connected by HDMI to the Pi500. No other computers, phone’s and such to access Home Assisant.

Having read a bit more on the forum I thought of the following setup. Hope you can confirm this makes any sense. Also how I could make this work

My idea would be to use:

  • Proxmox on “bare metal” turning the computer into a dedicated hypervisor
  • Have two virtual machines
    VM1 for Home assistant
    VM2 a light weight desktop which can use the Screen, Keyboard and Mouse

At startup make it enter VM 2 with a light weight desktop. From there open a broswer to access VM1 which is running Home assistant.

Thanks in advance!

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no, just run HAOS on bare metal, and use your phone or a tablet to access and control HA.

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I have a similar setup on a laptop: Proxmox + Home Assistant VM. You don’t need a 2nd VM for desktop access; I just installed xFCE directly into Proxmox, and I got an GUI welcome screen. You can simply turn that off when not needed.

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Thanks a lot for your replies. I’ll have a look into it hopefully this weekend!
Have had a busy week so didn’t get a chance yet.