I've tried some "button" type things in HA, but I find the whole HA experience so frustrating that i'm gradually moving everything out of it, and anything I need to interact with i'm just going to publish to the mqtt topic with something else instead.

I use mqtt-explorer to ship the device logs, and mqtt-exporter to expose the metrics to prometheus directly, and all the stuff I work with either has its own GUI, or is ESPHome. So all HA is now is an additional kinda ugly GUI that's a PITA to maintain (for me).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What buttons were you using? And what kinds of things did you use them for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was trying to control some DIY heat-pump IR remotes i'm making. It worked, but was just clunky and kinda a PITA to setup. Its entirely subjective, but I also hate the colour scheme and design, so just don't like using it in general, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Haha yeah Home Assistant goes from user interface to YAML before you know what's happening. I have a couple of IR blasters that I still haven't got around to setting up months later because of the hastle.

I have some qualms with the design too, but I don't think I could do any better lol