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’ll be totally honest. I am of the opinion that if I have to open up the HA app for something, then I’ve failed in setting up some automatic system or a meatspace override.
My home isn’t in my phone, it’s in the real world, the advantages to me of HA are absolutely not in the app which I see as a fairly clunky way of interacting with anything.
For my printer I use a Sonoff S31 flashed with tasmota. I then set it so it can’t be turned off remotely but can be turned on. That way I get the benefit of being able to remote start a print but not being able to accidentally turn it off.
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?
It native in android, see this article.
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.
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!
