Hi All,

I was lucky to have implemented a really cool HA project at work; we have all of our reactors running on ESPHome, reporting to HA. All setpoints are maintained locally, so HA just aggregates the data and acts as the interface to change setpoints; HA is not involved with any control loops, so you could take an axe to the server and the reactors would happily chug along none the wiser.

My Question: Are there any tools that allow for easy field inputs, like one would in excel?

We check our reactors twice daily manually, and that won’t change. It’s how we assess things like sensor drift, notice little maintenance items/flow balance issues etc. Someone uses a clipboard and fills out a whole worksheet, then this worksheet is entered by a supervisor (me) into a large, rolling spreadsheet.

What I’d like to do is not automate, but digitize that process. We will already be implementing tablets for a reactor readout, I’d like to create a dashboard that an operator inputs read values (all sensors are backed up by analog, physical indicators). Are there any dashboard tools that allow that? Either vanilla or HACS is fine.

Thanks!

PS: I’m “stealing” the code for my home bog garden. Boss is fine with me sharing it, but I’m going to do so after I implement it at home so I can be sure there’s nothing proprietary or identifiable in the YAML. We don’t do code/software so boss doesn’t care, but reactor setpoints etc would be bad. But when I open it up it’ll be a plug and play system for controlling multiple levels, flow, pressure, pH, temp.