After getting homeassistant installed and started, I did a small part of the configuration, then left it running two days while busy with other stuff. When I came back, the interface was still open but displayed “connection lost, trying to reconnnect”. I left it that way for a few hours and then closed the browser page and opened it again, but it has now been collecting data for several hours.
I was able to SSH into the Orange Pi Zero and attempted to start Samba found I need to learn a lot more before I can use it.
Still need to get the interface running again, but out of ideas now.