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.

  • @TCB13OP
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    18 months ago

    What I’m going to do is setup HA Core on a container manually and run without addons / docker. That will be about installing python and should waste way less resources.

    • @iarigby
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      18 months ago

      setup on a container run without docker

      ??

        • @iarigby
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          18 months ago

          yeah but that’s not setting up a container that’s just setting up python env

          • @TCB13OP
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            18 months ago

            Yes, but I would rather do it inside a LXC container.

            • @iarigby
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              18 months ago

              ah got it, thanks