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> If I had to count, I’d guess I have maybe 15 working automations across all my half-baked instances. That's it.
There is a big home automation channel in one of the Slacks I’m in.
It has been a running theme for years that people get Home Assistant, start trying to automate everything, frustrate their families, and then get forced to de-automate parts of the house because everyone around them is so fed up with it.
The endless debugging and tinkering is only fun for the person doing it, not the test subjects dealing with it. Even the tinkering gets old after a while and people end up with half-baked automations that they just live with, vowing to get back to it some day when the spark returns.
I am on my third iteration of HA, I regularly update it, so I also read the release notes that the author prepares/publishes.
HA feels like a broad church that caters to many users' integration needs. Lots of plugins that are supported as part of the core, fancy ways to create dashboards (admittedly I still struggle beyond the basics, and maybe I want automation and not dashboards).
It's one thing to write in the release notes about the fancy new features being added to dashboards, and another to actually use them as the lead developer. I personally wouldn't have posted that as my best/most used dashboard, because that signals that you don't really use your product.
There's a time when I led a team building a product, and my sermon to the team was that we should always be the superusers of our product because we'll be the first people to notice issues, our clients would look to us for support and we can't correctly build what we don't understand.
I don't get a sense of that from this post. It's not even about having a well oiled automation/assistant (as you're not the only one using devices in the house like you correctly point out), but find a subset of your devices in the instance you want to use, and produce something you want to regularly tell the world about.
Else we'll keep getting frustrated with HA until the big beans eventually catch up.
My 18 month toddler can do things with Google Home, she knows where to press to turn on the lights she can't reach. She fumbles her way around "he gugu". That's a good experience for someone who can't yet form sentences. Even with the best devices, I doubt I'd get her to that proficiency with HA.
Yeah, it's been the year of voice, but it feels complicated at a distance, I'm not even bothering with it.
I’m on my fourth iteration of a smart home setup with HA. Depression, neglect, a feeling that I need to burn it all down and restart, and depression again were all extinction level events for my setup. At one point I had meticulous Grafana dashboards worthy of a Golden Grot that could tell you the concentration of CO2, the pressure waves from the Tonga eruption, a map of Puget Sound gas prices, and other bits and bobs. I had dozens of Airthings sensors, plant sensors, ZWave temp sensors, three weather stations, countless LIFX bulbs, all working in unison to give me a pulse on my house.
Then I had a bout of the existential sads and just stopped looking at the slack notifications when HA connected the dots between a spike in radon and a nearby earthquake. I stopped caring that the CO2 concentration in my office was over 750ppm, or that watering my plants in my office in the winter was contributing to increased particulate in the air. Because I wasn’t listening to the interesting stuff, I stopped listening to the important stuff- alerts about failed drives, dying batteries, and broken updates.
Not caring felt so freeing. I didn’t start things up again until a few months later when I realized I wanted something cool to show in an interview. The cycle started anew.