Running HA and displaying it on the same device

Installation
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Hi all, please excuse me but I am very new to this and am just getting a feel for what I would like and how I might go about it.

Basically, I would like to run Home Assistant on a raspberry pi 4 and also display the dashboard on a 7" touchscreen attached to it. I plan to use add-ons, in particular I want to use the ESPHome add-on, and so from the documentation I believe I need to use either Home Assistant OS or a Home Assistant Supervised installation.

From what I can see there is no way that I can display the dashboard using the OS, but I don’t know whether I’m capable of maintaining a supervised installation myself (it’s made out to be only for pros in the documentation).

Can anyone offer me any advice on this?

2

Home assistant supervised is the only one that will allow you to use addons and have a local display.

3

Would you recommend that for a new user though? The documentation makes it out to be a very daunting task!

4

Makes no difference. It’s still your only option for those two requirements.

Your other options are:

  • Use a second device for display. Anything that can run a web browser, e.g. a pi3.

  • HA container install - you get no addons but if you know Docker you can run all the apps that have been added as addons.