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'Touch points' in HA (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 week ago by Bluesheep to c/homeassistant

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Both!

The native automation is perfectly cromulent for what I want, usually, but there's a couple of cases where the integrations either don't exist or don't return meaningful data.

FOR EXAMPLE, the video playback in the living room thing. Sure, the roku integration says "something is playing" but it's shockingly wrong and unreliable. What happens is it falls into 'idle' status between videos, or if you're fast forwarding sometimes and thus the automation was not doing exactly what I wanted.

The Jellyfin API, though, can look at the living room tv user and is spot on as to what is going on with play/pause/stopped statuses, so I have node red yank that data direct from the API and it works great.