This is a quick post for made in the hopes that some poor soul in the future will find it and save themselves some time.

Background

I’ve been experimenting with a few different ways to surface various home automation controls in the appropriate place and at a good time. One prototype host is deployed behind a small LCD under some cabinets in a high traffic area. This host is a raspberry pi 4 with a PoE hat. It boots a very stripped down version of Raspberry Pi OS into a web browser running in Kiosk mode.

Blowing the dust off the domain, trying Hugo out.

tap tap Is this thing on?