Strategy to study random effects with package lme4 or lmertest?

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I have a training dataset (95 840 rows) with:

str(train)
$ NUM_DEVICE_ID_COUPON       : Factor w/ 9 levels "8647","8666",..: 3 4 5 8 9 1 2 3 4 6 ...
$ TEMPERATURE_AIR            : num  6.29 6.13 6 7.05 8.16 ...
$ MonthNumber                : Factor w/ 12 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 
$ HOURS                      : Factor w/ 24 levels "0","1","2","3",..: 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 ...
$ TEMPERATURE_COUPON         : num  5.1 6.6 4.5 5.4 4.7 ...

Thanks to a Linear Model

lm(TEMPERATURE_COUPON ~ TEMPERATURE_AIR * MonthNumber * HOURS, ...)

the best model (based on BIC) is gotten with this above interaction.

So now I want to improve my best model (reduce BIC) by studying random effects of NUM_DEVICE_ID_COUPON.

First is it a good idea to start from fixed effects with the previous interaction?

But I have no idea to study which random effects: for the intercept, for each individual covariable TEMPERATURE_AIR, MonthNumber and HOURS? Plots of each covariable in function of NUM_DEVICE_ID_COUPON will help me?

library(lme4)
reg_ml1 = lmer(TEMPERATURE_COUPON ~ TEMPERATURE_AIR * MonthNumber * HOURS + 
(1 + TEMPERATURE_AIR | NUM_DEVICE_ID_COUPON) + ( 1 + TEMPERATURE_AIR | NUM_DEVICE_ID_COUPON) + ....)

What's the strategy?

Thanks for your help.

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