Home Assistant 2023.9: New climate entity dialogs, lots of tile features, and template sensors from the UI!
Home Assistant 2023.9: New climate entity dialogs, lots of tile features, and template sensors from the UI!
New entity dialogs for climate and others, lots of tile features, create template sensors from the UI and more!
I love Home assistant, but there's one major thing IMO that's missing and prevents me from really using it: user accounts. You can make accounts but they're mostly pointless as they all have access to everything and you can't restrict things.
A proper permissions system would be a big improvement for Home Assistant. It would be great to be able to set access rules per user and entity.
Unfortunately it’s a commonly request thing but it hasn’t gained much traction with the devs.
I have a feeling it's because most are single, living alone, in a basement programming. This is a joke as it's the only way I can rationalize it because if they had kids they would understand you don't want your kids turning on your bedroom lights in the middle of the night.
Yeah, an oold complaint with HA. But it doesn't feel like they have any intention of making the changes for this kind of a thing. I wouldn't hold your breath on them making this happen, ever.
I generally use HA differently, it coordinates and automates my homes devices. But I try to keep interactions with it limited to physical buttons in the meat space
The problem with buttons is that they're expensive (relatively speaking) and ruin the advantages of having everything in a single place like the HA app.
I am not giving access to "everything" to everyone in the house: I already managed to accidentally turn off the 3D printer mid print instead of a light, shouldn't expect others to be better than me.
Can’t you do that with admin users vs regular users? Pretty sure you can restrict dashboards by admin vs non-admin
Damn, that climate entity dialog is sexy AF.
Yeah, the new tile designs have been mostly great so far.
There still isn’t quite the flexibility of Mushroom cards but it’s much improved the out of the box dashboard experience.
They hired the mushroom guy why hasn't he just had mushroom added as default or include more features?
My Watchtower usually pulls images every Saturday morning, before I get up, so I can do controlled updates. I'm going to pull this one now and have a play.
I'm looking forward to trying template entity helpers.
Having to do them in YAML is frustrating to say the least...
I can finally add my Schlage lock!