Chromebook frontend | Home Assistant | Page 1

pearl wharf Oct 5, 2024, 5:45 AM

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Has anyone tried using a chromebook as a front end? you can find really cheap chromebooks with 360 hinge and touchscreen, the battery thing would be a problem i guess, but would a chromebook be good as just running a dashboard? i have a linknlink isg, but it is painfully slow, especially when switching between dashboards, but i am relatively new to HA, so i don't know if that is just a thing.

i have found an
Acer N16Q14 chromebook
16GB
11’6 inch Touchscreen
for ~30usd so i am tempted to just try it, but i wonder if anyone has tried it out?

gaunt rune Oct 10, 2024, 2:48 PM

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It would likely work, but you don't use the screen at all, so don't let that sway your buying decisions. Home Assistant runs as a server and you only need a screen and a keyboard if you are in trouble. Ant then as a terminal, no need for mouse or touch.

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Any intel or AMD based capable of 64bit will work. You need UEFI BIOS for bare metal HAOS, but using a VM you can get around that.

high topaz Oct 10, 2024, 10:03 PM

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he's asking to use it as a dashboard.
in which case there's no reason a touchscreen chromebook wouldn't work, especially these 2-in-1s.

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just keep the isg as the server

#Chromebook frontend