I am running HAOS on a RPI5 with 8Gig DRAM – and it seems to have memory and power to spare.
If I plug a monitor into HDMI1, I get console access to the HA CLI which is great.
I would like to plug an LCD monitor (with either mouse or touchsreen) into HDMI2 to view some of my key dashboards. This will be an easy way to check the status of thermostats, temperature & humidity sensors, etc.
This seems like a natural use case for the RPi running HA OS and would allow me to have an always-on view of key dashboards without either having to set up a separate RPi or Android device in kiosk mode or needing to open a browser on my laptop or the app on my mobile phone.
Surprisingly, I haven’t found any links to good ways to do this.
Even if native HAOS is headless, it would seem that this could be a natural use of an add-on to run a light weight window system plus browser to create a kiosk-mode on the RPi running HAOS. Basically, a kiosk in a docker container…
Is there a reason why this has not been done or at least is not popular?
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