Best setup: home assistant

Apps and Virtualization
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Hi all -

I run a KNX system at home and have been using since 2012 an old KNX native visualization that just broke.

I have been playing around with homeassistant a bit and now thinking about the following:

do I replace my native KNX app on my all-in-one wall mounted windows PC by

  • Again a all-in-one setup launching chrome in a browser and rendering the homeassistant app that TrueNAS runs.
  • Do I go with a raspberry PI setup and a touchscreen monitor?
  • Is there a way to render directly from the touchscreen something Truenas renders?
  • Are there touchscreens that just have a browser?

there is no physical HDMI connection betten the mount point and the truenas instance. There is LAN that I could use for hdmi over lan.

2

I’d explore using a Pi or another single board computer with a touch display booting directly into a browser. Maybe Home Assistant even supports what in Germany is called “kiosk mode”, i.e. a simplified designated web UI for touch displays.

3

There are displays/tablets specifically for HA display and control.

You can also do it with any tablet and the HA interface.