I am new to home automation and I have decided to focus on Home Assistant. However, I have few things that I am not too sure such as, is it possible to have multiple users or account? For example, I want to put a tablet at my living room so that my family members can control the switches, arm/disarm the alarm, see the weather, etc… but cannot access certain switches such as those in my room. I also want to let my other family members to control the switches of their own room using their phone.
I think so because user management with a permissions model would make it possible to use Home Assistant in other places than just your home. In an office environments you don’t want to give everybody access to all entities which can be controlled. Similar to your setup…don’t allow the kids to do monkey tricks
Hi, i am really amazed with home assistant, just really thanks for your job. This feature i think that it is really import because affect the user. I was doing something like homeassistant for the university and we always focus on the user permissions and this staff… if there are something that i can do i would like to contribute. Just thanks and sorry for the english…
We need a concept/design about the how this could be done first and take into account that the migration of the http component is coming too (117409153).
Perhaps a ‘lite’ way to do this would be to simply allow multiple group configurations so you could pick and choose different entities for a different web path - this would have the added benefit of allowing for instance mounted tablets in different parts of the house to have a different view of switches and scenes etc. - I have 3 tablets and counting and would love to have different info on each one.
This is really only “security by obscurity” so does not address any strong security requirement but it may be a quicker way to get part of the way there.
