What options are there for wall mounted touchscreen dashboards?
I came across Dusun DSGW-120. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q7_eYrTtq7w
Also don’t mind mounting an old iPad in a kiosk mode as long as there is a nice trim frame available.
Wouldn’t want to have a dedicated Raspberry PI to run the dashboard.
My HAOS is running on a miniPC and I could potentially use an HDMI over Ethernet extender to connect a screen, not sure how to handle the touch signal though.
By no means I would want the screen to be laggy. Want it to be as responsive as an iPad.
HA is meant to run headless. Connecting an HDMI cable to whatever is running it will not give you anything apart from an ugly command prompt screen.
Simply add any tablet you want and fire up your dashboard using a browser or the companion app. No cables apart from tablet power required
yep the best way is a tablet. There are many options for wall mounts, I bought one from MBmounts a few years ago (for a Galaxy tab a7) and its been holding up nicely.
@ShadowFist, @couch67, what do you do to keep kids from playing games on the iPad? How to make it only show the HA dashboard?
If you have miniPC then one option would be to install proxmox on it (rather than run HA directly), then inside proxmox install HA and Windows in separate VM’s. Then you’ll be able to show dashboard via hdmi by running windows or Linux while still running HA on same miniPC. I guess that touch would also work if you have a monitor with that option - i have 15-inch monitor (from aliexpress) which has touch connection separately via usb and it works perfectly on windows as second monitor - i just connected hdmi for picture and usb for touch to main PC (laptop).
That Dusun seems a bit pricey, as i see… you can get a used android tablet cheaper. Just don’t buy the cheapest one, it will be laggy. Better to get used/second hand Samsung premium series tablet (or similar). Another option is to use 5-7 inch LVGL screen - but that requires quite some additional programming via esphome.
I don’t know about ipad, but on android when you run HA dashboard on fully kiosk it can be locked with password in kiosk mode.
Fully kiosk browser on an android tab.
Mind you Ha does jot have any role based access controls. So also give the tablet it’s own non admin user and take time ensuring that user can only see the parts of HA you want. It be easier to secure the tablet in general than it will be to secure your HA install.
Use a tablet, best option. You can run whatever you want on it (probably Fully Kiosk with HA) and not be locked by some proprietary solution. Then use any picture frame (Ikea has good one) with 3D printed insert, so the tablet is nicely centered in the frame.
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The trick is quite simple, really. I don’t have kids, nor an iPad, so I don’t have to do anything 
Got it. Would it be possible to migrate an existing HAOS installation into a VM using proxmox? What would be the procedure?
Yes!
- create a backup from your system
- install from scratch (this might help Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts)
- at onboarding restore your backup
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Is there a way to migrate the live HAOS into a VM?
How reliable is the backup/restore?
TBH: I can’t answer to that.
I have only seen issues regarding encryption of backups so far.
If you’re switching to a VM, you just give it a try (that’s also the beauty of running virtual)
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Once everything is running the VMs are great. I’m just trying to figure out if I should try extract an image from live running HAOS and create a VM out of it, or should try from scratch and just rely on backup/restore.
Do this ^^
Note that I’ve been seeing some reports of backups failing on the onboarding screen. If that happens to you, just create a dummy user then restore once you see the new dashboard.
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@Nick4, @ShadowFist, managed to recreate everything with Proxmox. Got all protocols working - ZigBee, Z-Wave and Matter!!!
There is only one challenge with the Bluetooth which I find find any way binding to the guest VM. The bluetooth shows up as usb device on the host.
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Are you using a BT USB dongle?
Did you set up USB passthrough from Proxmox to HA for your dongle?
No, its a bluetooth that comes with the MeLE micro-pc. It looks like to be USB based.
Actually all is good. There was an “unnamed” usb devices which I didn’t add, I wasn’t sure what is it. I added it and the BT turns on! TY!
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