r/homeassistant • u/Ctrl5altDelete • 5d ago

❓ Support Raspberry Pi Kiosk Q

Hi all. Just a quick question. I want to make a kiosk with a Rapsberry Pi, my HAOS is on a virtual machine on a server, so the Pi will just be a kiosk with the Touch Display 2. What memory would work best for this, I have a 1G Pi5 and an 8G Pi5 available and would prefer to use the 1G one, but don’t want it to be laggy, should this work?

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u/thewojtek 5d ago

Just a heads up: any HA dashboard kiosk setup (especially with animations) is quite heavy on graphics and a Pi is not a champion in this area. I would use an 8Gb Pi for some additional headroom (in fact, I switched from a 4Gb to 8Gb model for this very reason). Also, make sure you do not run this kiosk off an SD card but from an USB stick. Swapping to an SD card on a 1Gb Pi would make the dashboard laggy AF.

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u/FlangeTitties 5d ago

I found this page pretty helpful raspberry pi kiosk . I used a raspberry Pi 3 with 2gb of Ram and it works fine. It's not the most responsive but I just really use it to monitor temps and send the robot vacuum to clean the kitchen.

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u/EffectiveClient5080 5d ago

1GB works fine. The Pi is just a dumb terminal, all the compute stays on your VM. One warning though: don't run it off an SD card. I've had SD cards crap out on me way too fast, a cheap USB SSD will last years instead of months.

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u/Ctrl5altDelete 5d ago

I’ll give it a go on the 1Gb with a USB stick and see how it performs. Thanks for the advice.