agreed, I’d like to add and mention the one integration we all really need: Powercalc which has a device database growing by the day, powered by the community.
Btw, there is a lot of ambition (nice), and things we want in the above, but let’s for once also talk about what we don’t want.
An Anecdote of our Home Assistant system the other day:
Asking my voice assistant to turn-off some scene, I didn’t work and I got annoyed, telling it with some extra wording (‘nou eens’ in Dutch, probably something like ‘listen for once’ in English) my Assistant is setup to use Dutch language, but this time it replied: Ok, turning off scene X and The House… Which it did…
A smart home would have said, I am sorry I dont understand (ok, it does that all the time which is also annoying…), and it should have at least asked: “Are you sure you want me to turn of your House…?”
Bloopers of that kind are killing faith in any roadmap here in our household talking about Truly Smart…
As a matter of fact, Ive reviewed the exposed entities with calamities of this kind in mind once again. No more voice assistant exposed entities that can have such disastrous consequences.
I am now forced to go to the Dashboard again for those, or use their dedicated app circumventing Home Assistant altogether.
couldnt agree more, the presented Roadmap diagram seems not very well balanced. How can ‘making Music Assistant easier to setup’ be more important than Privacy/Security. Those elements aren’t even of the same level of abstraction so impossible to represent like this. As if Privacy would be a Dashboard item only (??? indeed).
I do hope that the new concept of Integrated devices wont result in even more indivual entities. Like with the previous move from integrated entities with several attributes.
Our systems are seeing more and more of those and overloading it further per release so it seems. If I compare my system with a year or 2 go, it must have trippled the numbers. Simply checking dev tools states takes practically half a minute before it has loaded…
Please consider that aspect also when introducing new models of context and information. Especially when they are additional, and not replacing current architecture.