I really hope im wrong
is my Rasberry Pi 5 really using all of its time showing a blinking terminal window ?
i mean, why is there not at least a browser so i can show the dashboard ?
it sits ideally for 99,9999% (yes this is accurate, actual calculated time 10 interactions pr day of 10 ms processor time ;)) of the time waiting for me to push a switch in a browser - is there not a better way to run Home Assistant ?
An RPI5 is indeed way overpowered for Home Assistant. So there is room for lots of addons, and even for things not related for Home Assistant. However, very few people have a screen attached to their RPI where Home Assistant runs on. And in order to run a browser, Home Assistent would need a graphical OS. Instead, if you use HAOS it has a very minimal OS, so it will run on smaller and less powerful RPI’s.
There are multiple installation options to choose from if you want to utilize the remaining capacity for other things. If all these things are available as addon then HAOS will do, if not you should look for other installation options. But these will require more knowledge and work from you.
I am afraid you should not get your hopes up that there will be an installation type that will include a graphical OS and browser though, as Home Assistant is meant to run headless on a server.
Home assistant is meant to be ran as a server, like most smart home equipment.
Only 10 interactions a day. As just a casual user perhaps you should move it all down to a rpi 3B+. It will definitely use more of the processor.
These replies… This is what people hate about this forum. No, most smart home equipment is expected to run as a client, to someone elses server.
At least give something else productive on the topic.
As with a lot of stuff, things are sold to people without the explanation as to what and why. Yeah, you bought a Pi(5) and are just running HA on it? You’re wasting a lot of CPU cycles. Good thing is its a Pi and it doesn’t really need much. That being said…
Can you do something else with it while its running HA? Of course! Run your own DNS, media server, file server, Mainframe (Hercules) emulator, (lightweight) desktop, recipe server, book server, and a lot more. Its up to you to do what you wish with the equipment on hand.
What did I say that’s wrong? We are talking about hubs here. Maybe you miss understood and assumed I was talking about devices that connect to hubs?
The HA is the part that replace someone else server.
This whole time… .hmm… I never knew that. /sarcasm
sigh.
Topic - “other use for The Rasberry Pi running Home Assistant”
Reply - “Its a server”
This. Give something more than this.
You could install raspberry pi OS, and have HAOS running on a KVM/QEMU VM. Not an easy installation, but feasible.
Your responses are rather toxic. Please remember that we are all humans when replying.