Hello,

My IoT/Home Automation needs are centered around custom built ESPHome devices and I currently have them all connected to a HA instance and things work fine.

Now, I like HA’s interface and all the sugar candy, however I don’t like the massive amounts of resources it requires and the fact that the storage usage keeps growing and it is essentially a huge, albeit successful, docker clusterfuck.

Is there any alternative dashboard that just does this:

  1. Specifically made for ESPHome devices - no other devices required;
  2. Single daemon or something PHP/Python/Node that you can setup manually with a few systemd units;
  3. Connects to the ESPHome devices, logs the data and shows a dashboard with it;
  4. Runs offline, doesn’t go into 24234 GitHub repositories all the time and whatnot.

Obviously that I’m expecting more manual configuration, I’m okay with having to edit a config file somewhere to add a device, change the dashboard layout etc. I also don’t need the ESPHome part that builds and deploys configurations to devices as I can do that locally on my computer.

Thank you.

  • b1g_bake@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    How has home assistant become a resource monster? What kind of integrations are you using aside from ESPHome?

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, home assistant is tiny… I’m not sure what he expects? Does he need it to run on a pi zero or something? Lol

  • CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    Node-Red can do dashboards. I don’t know if it does data logging, but I would guess so since it can do dashboards. It also supports MQTT so it should handle ESPHome devices without a problem.

    It’s made for automations (and great at it) but it can be a minimalist HA hub too.

  • TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m running domoticz with an rflink interface for my rf433 devices. No clue if they support ESPHome, but you can check. It runs confined to my network.

  • icanwatermyplants@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    Consider running HA in a light weight systemd-nspawn container with minimal debian. No docker, only install the repositories you need. HACS if needed. Run your own database on the side somewhere and let HA use it.

    By itself HA is fairly lightweight already.