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:
Specifically made for ESPHome devices - no other devices required;
Single daemon or something PHP/Python/Node that you can setup manually with a few systemd units;
Connects to the ESPHome devices, logs the data and shows a dashboard with it;
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.
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.
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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.
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If you don’t need the addons you don’t need Docker. HA Core is a python script with a few dependencies that can run with pyenv and a simple systemd service unit at every boot.
yeah but that’s not setting up a container that’s just setting up python env
Yes, but I would rather do it inside a LXC container.
ah got it, thanks