Home Assistant Cookbook - Discussion Thread

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My company’s Intranet used as 3 click system as well. It wasn’t always adhered to, but it worked well.

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As I said, I didn’t explain it properly.

See here:

I find that good to read, people are used to scroll down in Discord forums. If you just scroll down, you have one click to the linked topic, if you use the TOC to get into a category there are only two. One on the TOC, and one in the corresponding post to the linked topic.

It’s easier for us, as we can better add content to each category (see “optional” in the example topic), it’s easier to manage in case of edits, as the post to edit is much smaller, and I find it good to read for the user - you have kind of a divider between categories, because you have a seperate post for each category.

I like it, as I already said, would be my favourite, but as you, @Stiltjack , started the Cookbook, it’s your choice! Let me know, what you think! :slight_smile:

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Btw. this post should be added to the Cookbook as well, this sounds great for people that use th UI (not me, but hey… :laughing:).

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If we’re going for the smaller usefull ones too, this one got more likes than I would have guessed:

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I see what you mean now, sorry. I agree it is good to read.

However, as @tom_l says, only the first post in a Community Guide can be edited by anyone. Your index works very well for something that’s being maintained by one person, but it’s not going to work here, unfortunately.

Anyone else got any thoughts? I may be trying to fix something that’s not broken… :grin:

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Wow, yes it did. Can you write it up as a community guide?

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Will do. But I may wait untill I have a proper keyboard, I’m on vacation now.

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Only the example I gave in the topic.

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I was trying to see how the recent changes affected the post about the autogenerated dashboard. But I have so many entities, the autogenerated dashboard is totally locking up my iPad air. I guess my partner would say my hobby is getting out of hand. I just think: I need an iPad pro… :rofl:

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Tracking down instability issues caused by integrations Added to cookbook index (Troubleshooting)

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Thank you! Do we need to make sure all cookbook posts are in the Community Guides category?

If they are not, they can’t be edited by anyone except the original author - and I think this is true even if you move them to Community Guides. There may be issues keeping them up to date in the future.

Edit: An alternative is to ask the author to use the “make wiki” option.

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I messaged bdraco and he was ok with moving it. It looks like it’s done.

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I moved it myself, but he needs to make it a wiki since it was created outside Community Guides.

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Guys, don’t move pinned topics. I’m going to move it back so that it has optics on it during this release. Configuration has the most traffic, that’s where people will head when encountering an issue with 2024.5.

We can make a separate cookbook post if needed at a later date.

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looping @bdraco in so he knows what is happening

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Sorry… I didn’t read this first… I changed the category…

I didn’t notice the pin. Have to start looking for that I guess.

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Added a link for this in getting started HA

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can we add this to the troubleshooting section: Instructions to install Py-spy on HAOS
yep we can… added as number 8 there

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Hmm, yeah that is really, really unfortunate! I haven’t thought about that. :frowning: I need to check, if Discourse doesn’t offer anything for that.

So, for the time being, we best leave it as is. :slight_smile:

I’d say so! Maintainance is a nightmare otherwise. I have that in another forum at the moment, you’re only allowed to edit your own posts after three months of membership and I haven’t reached that… Writing sometimes twice a day to a moderator isn’t a funny thing to do. And after the update you see two or three typos, so you write again to a moderator… We need the possibility for others to edit these posts, otherwise I wouldn’t use for the Cookbook.

Taking this into account, is there a possibility to make use of a “special account”? Something like a user called “CookbookAuthor” and we share the password for this account? It’s not really a good idea, but if we could limit the rights to editing posts in one category, it should work.

Or would it make sense, to open a new category in the forum “Cookbook”, where we could grant or limit access to all different things?

I’m just throwing in ideas here… :laughing:

Back to topics to list in the Cookbook:

List it or not? :slight_smile: