I was reading the HA roadmap and thinking about the points where everyone (else) interacts with my HA environment. I’ve wanted displays/dashboards for a long time but mostly have either battery powered buttons or smart wall switches. These are good in that I can automate them but with two teenage children we have a lot of variability.
Tell me how everyone else uses HA in your house. Do they love it? Do they see only that buttons ‘do things’? Do they read dashboards and crave data?
I’m generally the only one that actually interacts with the app, home assistant basically automates things on schedules and based on temperature and whether anyone’s home or not.
So there’s stuff like:
- preheat the office on cold work days
- make the robot vacuum clean the house if nobody’s home
- turn the AC off if nobody’s home
- turn the night light on in the baby’s room and turn it off in the morning (change the colour when it’s time to wake up)
I guess the goal is to keep the house comfortable while at home, while turning everything off when not to save energy without having to think about it.
Have you ever felt tempted to put a dashboard around the place? Maybe the rest of the family aren’t bothered about longer term information etc.
I was thinking things like weather and power usage might help my family. I also thought something that showed who was home would be cool.