2024.4: Organize all the things!
www.home-assistant.io
Time for spring cleaning 🧹 Introducing new ways to organize your automations (and more) with floors, labels, and categories. Easily add Matter devices from other controllers, and two brand new map ...
  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
    25·
    6 months 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    I like home assistant but I feel I’m always so behind with my own instances everything feels very outdated how I have it.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.

    • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      21·
      6 months 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

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      17·
      6 months 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.

      • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
        2·
        6 months 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.

    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      I think the beauty of home assistant is that if everything is working, why worry.

      Some of the updates are great though. I’m quite new to home assistant so I’m eagerly always playing with the new stuff, but soon I’ll just throw my Raspberry Pi in a dark corner and forget to update it for months at a time.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      Why don’t you just stay in a version that does everything you need? That’s sort of the point of a point release system.

      • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        I don’t want to do that because once there are new features you want, upgrading in a big bang is basically impossible because there are too many breaking changes. So it’s better at least to fix small things all the time. Also on top of that security updates are very important too.

  • Osiris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

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

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      It’s a real step up for managing Home Assistant. I was using it earlier to find some devices to reconfigure and it’s a lot faster. The xtra panels in the UI feel a little cramped on smaller screens though.

      I wish they would implement a proper permissions system next, the lack of control is the other admin bugbear of mine with Home Assistant.

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months 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.

    • Madelena@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

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

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    6 months 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.

    • Jakor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months 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.