Laptop display how to turn off

[humble hornet]

I have a kind of mix between a Laptop and Tablet and I installed HAOS on it. The problem is the display is always turned on and I didn't find any fix to turn it off.
Anyone an idea what I could try?
Thanks!

[humble hornet]

And can I somehow simulate a browser on haos?

So I can turn devices on/off over the Touchscreen

[void pier]

if the devices screen controls are supported by the kernel you may be able to directly set the status via the host terminal by catting a command directly. however automating this would be tricky. you would have to set up host level ssh access then send the command from HA to this.
You may have to reimplement this after updates too.

There is no official way to run a browser on the host monitor however there is an app/add-on that apparently does it but I have no idea how good it is, The project is: HAOS-kiosk

depending on the actual hardware you may be better off setting up a standard OS and a container install or virtualised HAOS install on top of that. This would give you more control and options. HAOS itself is "just enough OS to run HA" and not really designed for these kind of things. Most people do not have a monitor attached to their HA server for example.

[humble hornet]

yea ik. But my pc is very old and not really powerful. So I don't think I will manage to run HAOs in a vm

[void pier]

if your working with limited hardware then you are probably fighting a loosing battle.

[humble hornet]

It has a x5-Z8350 and 2gb DDR3 so really not good

[void pier]

Yeah... That is gunna be a bit of a challenge. You may want to consider a hardware change.

[humble hornet]

But like stronger PCs are now so expensive

[void pier]

You can get some older used hardware from Ebay that would be a big step up but still pretty cheap. Thin client type hardware is very popular for budget server setups. It may depend on where you are in the world though.

[humble hornet]

What specs would you recommend?

[void pier]

if your going preowned then it depends what is available really. if you shoot some examples then perhaps peoplee can comment on how well it may work.

[humble hornet]

Can I just unmount the display?

[void pier]

No idea. probably depends on the device. some don't care but some don't like it.

[humble hornet]

But normal ha with <100 devices 2gb ram and the x5-Z8350 should be enough?

[void pier]

You are probably on the edge of requirements but it will probably work for now. but you wont be able to run much in the way of extra apps and stuff on it.

[sly horizon]

You could set up a browser as a docker container within HAOS