I've been doing some R&D for building a Home Assistant dashboard with a nice touchscreen display I bought to go on the wall at home, with the ultimate goal of expanding it into many home-rolled displays.
Having slimmed down the RPi Lite OS as much as I can, running Wayfire with a Chromium kiosk is just too much for the Pi 3B+ I'm using once I add a streaming camera to the dashboard, and it can't cope. My goal is to have a responsive touch-screen display for Home Assistant using something in the form-factor of a Pi Zero 2W, so that I can put the SBC _inside_ the display and build a wooden picture frame to house it all, so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.
I'm not sure what kind of API HA has for the frontend, but my first thought, was to build a native application with a Go backend (I write Go for my day job) and use something like Wails[0] for the frontend and completely cut out the heavy-weight Chromium browser.
I have Pi4's and Pi5's but I really want to use the littlest amount of compute (and power) I can to achieve this, even it means writing the UI myself. I've tried looking for a lighter-weight browser that I can simply run the HA dashboard in to no avail.
Having slimmed down the RPi Lite OS as much as I can, running Wayfire with a Chromium kiosk is just too much for the Pi 3B+ I'm using once I add a streaming camera to the dashboard, and it can't cope. My goal is to have a responsive touch-screen display for Home Assistant using something in the form-factor of a Pi Zero 2W, so that I can put the SBC _inside_ the display and build a wooden picture frame to house it all, so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.
I'm not sure what kind of API HA has for the frontend, but my first thought, was to build a native application with a Go backend (I write Go for my day job) and use something like Wails[0] for the frontend and completely cut out the heavy-weight Chromium browser.
I have Pi4's and Pi5's but I really want to use the littlest amount of compute (and power) I can to achieve this, even it means writing the UI myself. I've tried looking for a lighter-weight browser that I can simply run the HA dashboard in to no avail.
[0]https://wails.io/