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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I like home assistant but I feel I'm always so behind with my own instances everything feels very outdated how I have it. But I just have no time to modernize it.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I can relate, with every update I'm like "Wow this is going to optimize my setup so much" and then I just don't change anything lol

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I always keep Home Assistant as up to date as possible. Home Assistant keeps improving a lot. Month to month each update goes fairly seamlessly if HA is kept up to date, but the further it falls behind the harder it is to catch back up. Recent optimisation improvements have also made the update process faster.

If you can make the time it's worth the effort. Even if you have to "start over" somewhat there is probably a lot you have learned since that you can use to improve your setup.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what I'm doing too. On top of that I have 3 instances, my own at home, the one at my parents house and then another one at their summer house.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

This sounds like it fixes some of my main complaints about HA. Cant wait to try it

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Still no proper authentication like SAML, OIDC, SSO or even LDAP unfortunately :(

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The Home Assistant developers rejected a pull request that added OpenID Connect support (https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/32926) and have not expressed any interest in it, so I don't think we're ever getting it. :/

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

How do you edit or delete categories once you've created them?

To be sure, I'm using the companion mobile app and don't see an obvious Categories editor. I haven't explored the desktop UI fully for this question yet.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

In the Categories section of the Filter panel, you can find options next to each category for editing and deleting.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah! There it is! Thank you.

Still a bit broken on mobile, but they'll catch it up.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Does this let me limit what each family member can see to only what is theirs or I can trust them with? Currently I don't have anyone else set up at all because I couldn't prevent them from turning off the power strip for my 3d printers, or opening the garage without realizing it and getting my previous bike stolen.

My current setup is massively out of date too since the update failed one day and I haven't been able to complete the requirements for it to work, and I'm planning to move it to a different computer anyway, but I've been putting it off while also hoping for this functionality to show up.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve never dug into this personally but can’t you set certain dashboards to be admin only? That way you can hide those entities on a dashboard only you have access to.

I assume this wouldn’t prevent someone from going into the full list of entities in the settings menu though.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey yes, add a person for each person you want to have access, only have yourself as admin that way they wont have direct access to entities.

Now you can use either conditional dashboards, or conditional cards to control what utilities are available to users. For example, my dashboards home screen shows general controls for everyone, but conditionally shows light controls to each user on the same page. I then have myself an admin dashboard with server controls, etc.

For the garage, that was an issue I sought to avoid, a simple automation that closes the garage if it has been opened for too long, and a toggle for that function as well as garage notifications seem to be plenty.

Only one incident where my jerry-rigged Shelly relay remote had the sensor switch miss, and the auto close - thinking the garage was open - opened the garage. I added an error state so that it would attempt to close again and notify if the garage is open after autoclose, which works if its blocked as well. All of this because MyQ doesnt provide local or API access lol

Edit: turns out I may be wrong about entity access, which is a bit of a shame, hopefully we can see that in a future update.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Automation grouping??? Alleluja!!! 🥳

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