Our home assistant already have quite nice number of integrations and sensors and it makes me really joy to improve smartness of our home. What I find a pain is searching for right tools/integrations.
Many of items works in home assistant (which is cool and thank for all developers who have made it possible), but there is still a big bunch of tools, which are not working without installing original app, registering at producer’s website and actually with HA preparing more complicated automations with data in producer’s cloud…
What I imagine are several categories in integration’s page, for instance:
-fully functional in HA (all data in HA)
-registration needed
-registration needed, data just downloaded (API)
-producer’s application needed (data are send and synchronized with external site)
…
Or some kind of security notes, if after installation the integration really fulfill what HA promise: privacy first
Good example for this are security cameras. My first condition for buying camera was that it has to be compatible with HA. I was quite happy to find Blink (even wireless!) and so disappointed when it was delivered and I found out that without sending all the data to Amazon it’s unusable. In some cases I will omit some security maybe, but in case as this one I am not going to trust third party.
Thank you!