Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

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Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices - Lemmy.World

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.

How has home assistant become a resource monster? What kind of integrations are you using aside from ESPHome?

I’m not using any other integration. Isn’t this a resource monster?

I just don’t want to keep running an entire VM with their image. Something more simple that could be used on a LXC / systemd-nspawn container or directly on a base system would be nicer.

If this is what you consider a resource monster you’re gonna have a really, really rough time
This isn’t reasonable at all, 700MB of ram + 10GB of storage for a simple webui that charts sensor data and only keeps it for 10 days.
You need to edit your configuration.yaml file to exclude certain sensors or values. I excluded some of the more chatty sensors that I didn’t need and my disk use went from around 40gb to 150mb
Interesting. I’ll have to check what might be logging so much info.