Hi!
I use Home Assistant for a wide range of integrations (KNX, Zigbee, heating control, solar power, etc.) in a single-family home.
We now want to renovate the house and create two living units (a two-family home).
However, the underlying systems, such as KNX, should remain the same.
We really like the default Overview dashboard with its sections, etc., and would like to continue using it in the future.
This raises the question: Can the Overview dashboard be customized so that the residents of Unit 1 see only the common areas and the rooms ofUnit1, and the residents of Unit 2 see only the common areas and the rooms of Unit 2?
Or, what needs to be done to achieve this?
Best regards!
I was almost afraid I’d get this answer.
Hope some sort of RBAC will be implemented soon.
Two-family homes /multigenerational homes, which are not uncommon here in Austria, would be much easier to model with this approach.
I wouldn’t hold my breath. As long as it is family I would try customizing some dashboards to split it up that way. If it’s non-family it would be an absolute no-go to do that though.
Creating custom dashboards for the two units is our backup plan.
It would have been nice to use the automatic overview dashboard for that. Unfortunately, the level of customization of the automatic dashboard is very limited (as far as I know, the “Take Control” feature for energy, security, lighting, etc., no longer exists).
I don’t know KNX at all, but is it possible to connect two different HA installations to the same KNX network? That way you could disable unit A devices on the unit B HA installation and vice versa. You could export data from A to B with influx or something to consolidate the data perhaps (I’ve never tried but seems doable?)
In theory, it should be. The single KNX-IP-Interface we use (MDT SCN-IP000.03) supports up to five connections.
So it would be possible to run two VMs and connect them to KNX. But that also means having to configure everything twice, create all the general areas and the devices within them twice. Double the effort, which is exactly what we want to avoid.
If it’s only the initial config that puts you off, you could configure all areas and devices once and then do a restore to a different vm, but some drift will happen and of course if you start introducing other protocols that might make it difficult. Anyway, RBAC is probably not happening very soon so some customized dashboards might be the best solution.
RBAC and LDAP-Support - While there’s life, there’s hope.
My (temporary) solution will be different dashboards on one HA.
Thank you very much for the discussion!
