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 HAās interface and all the sugar candy, however I donāt 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, doesnāt go into 24234 GitHub repositories all the time and whatnot.
Obviously that Iām expecting more manual configuration, Iām okay with having to edit a config file somewhere to add a device, change the dashboard layout etc. I also donāt need the ESPHome part that builds and deploys configurations to devices as I can do that locally on my computer.
Thank you.
The UI is definitely better than it used to be, but nodered can do some more powerful stuff like pulling the html of a devices web ui and parsing data straight from the page when thereās no API to use for example. I used to do that for a solar inverter at my last house.
Now I use it to control my AV switcher that distributes video through the house, it has no native homeassistant integration and only supports things like control4 and RTI so I implemented my own control using their REST API and hooked it all up to buttons and selectors in homeassistant. works great.
Also my home theatre receiver has a homeassistant integration but its terrible, so again, Iāve manually implemented the tcp controls in nodered.
pulling the html of a devices web ui
Iāve done something similiar in NR to scrape the CUPS webpage on my desktop and turn on a tasmota plug for the printer when it sees a job waiting in the queue. I wouldnāt even try to do that in HA directly. But I wouldnāt be surprised if thereās an integration somewhere that would do it.
