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!
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2023.9: New climate entity dialogs, lots of tile features, and template sensors from the UI!
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.
I mostly use user accounts on locked devices that can only show the HA app with views specifically designed as such, which in turn limits the devices/entities viable to them.
Do you use Android devices? If so, what app do you use to lock the device to only HA?
Can’t you do that with admin users vs regular users? Pretty sure you can restrict dashboards by admin vs non-admin