As I am very pleased with Homey overall but REALLY disapointed with Insights, I’m thinking about creating a replacement. I realize there are apps for pushing Homey stored data to external data storage and work with is there, but that seems like “crossing the river to get some water” (an old swedish saying).
Is it possible to run an app on the homey that serve HTML to an external consumer? Simply running a small web server that renders anything based on Homey data? In that case you could (at least when connected to a local LAN or via a port forward from the outside) access the Homey from an browser and get a decent user experience when looking at sensor and state data.
Not sure, but it was changed, first it was just collecting and store data and data could be deleted after some time. Now data is collected at full speed but (if I understood it right) after 1 hour the data is “averaged” to save storage memory, after a day it is even more compresed.
So if you need detailed info, you have to save it within an hour.
I cant use insights, still some bug somewhere in Homey. So I needed an altenative, and by just adding one raspberry pi with influxdb on it and Grafana, I create my own dasboards and combine information from mutiple sensors.
Only need the influxdb export app on the homey and all values are saved. Retension and compacting is now also possible but you are the one who choose when.
Grafana has a simple access system, dashboard can be as viewer only.