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Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot of difference between a container and a VM. You can install HA on a container, all you have to do is set it up according to the manual install instructions, and work around any hardware interfacing issues that come up. You'll save 200MB of RAM and will have to do any upgrades manually. Doesn't seem worth it to me, but to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

setup on a container run without docker

??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

ah got it, thanks