KISS Please: Why HA, Grafana, Influx DB, and NodeRed?

[leo_charles]

Wondering why (w/out getting too detailed) why some of you are running Grafana, InfluxDB, NodeRed, and/or HA on top of a HE?

These days my spare time is very limited, but there’s always a few things I would like to do with my smart home that is limited by HE’s capabilities (such as charting my Emporia Vue, controlling my skylights, a more stable TTS, etc.) and I’m not entirely sure if these programs are worth setting up. I have a QNAP NAS (Container Station/Docker) that I could probably use to tack on some of these extra apps if there was a good reason.

Wife always jokes that if I died, she would be screwed on the smart home front and the smart devices will take over. Then I almost died, woke up 3 days later and spent a week in the Neuro ICU due to COVID-19… Recently a gas fireplace accidentally turned on Via Bond integration to our Alexa devices and almost set our house on fire but luckily my wife caught it in time after melting my daughter’s dolls...

[rlithgow1]

Granfana/influx exports datapoints to be graphable. Something Hubitat doesn't have built in.,

Nodered is used in place of Rule Machine. It's more of a personal preference I think. It can also pull from other sources.

HA... People like the dashboards better and they can bring in certain other things that can't connect to Hubitat... (cloud stuff and what not or mqtt)

That's the short answer anyway

[bradford.clarke]

My initial foray into HA was due to HE not supporting Zigbee inbound messaging for my "cheap and cheerful" Ikea buttons.

Now I keep HA around (running in a container on my NAS) for some unique dashboards and to tinker with.