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.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I went with the virtual appliance when I installed Home Assistant several years ago, turned out to be a great decision looking at how it’s architected. I only self-host the database separately, which i’ve found easier to manage.

    the fact that the storage usage keeps growing

    There should be a setting to reduce how long Home Assistant retains data for - I removed the limit on mine, however its possible that on newer versions they’ve changed the default

    Hope you find a solution though - I think node red (capable of doing dashboards on its own) with something else is going to get you part way there.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      I’ve been doing this. I’m running HA under LXD (VM) and it works.

      $ lxc info havm
Name: havm
Status: RUNNING
Type: virtual-machine
Architecture: x86_64
PID: 541921
Created: 2023/12/05 14:14 WET
Last Used: 2024/01/28 13:35 WET

      While it works great and it was very easy to get the VM running I would rather move to something lighter like a container. About the storage I just see it growing everyday and from what I read it should be keeping for 10 days however it keeps growing. Almost 10GB for a web interface and logs from a couple of sensors, wtf?

      I would be very happy with HA, really no need to move other stuff as long as things were a bit less opaque than a ready to go VM that runs 32434 daemons and containers inside it.

  • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 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.