Understanding Our Community: The 2024 Home Assistant Survey

Yes. Read it. I am missing Questions what my Goals, Wishes or next Steps are.

Im asked about the language we speak at home. Two.
I am asked about if we use Voice Assistant. No.
I am missing the possibility to say “But i would love to make this my next project”.

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Let me be more clear: This survey isn’t looking for that information.

Yes, it is not.
And this is what I am missing :smiley:

Edit: Yes, you (They? Nabu Casa? Foundation? Homeassistant) wanna get to know who uses it as of today. And how it started. I think the future Goals are as interesting as the past.

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And that may come in the future, but that’s not what this survey is about.

The month of WTH is currently about what the users want added in the future.

That’s nothing to do with WTH. I will not open a wth “I think about using voice assistant in the future”. Should I? :wink:

Youre repeating “this is not what the survey is about”. Im repeating “I think these questions do belong to the goals of the survey”. Looks like a Loop.
If you can tell me WHY this does not (from your pov) belong to the survey, this might be a step.

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The survey, as I understand it, is about where user currently ARE in their smart home journey, not about where they want to take their smart home. They need to know where the majority of users responding are before they can understand where they want to go in the future.

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Might be a dumb question but what does anyones pronouns have to do with a smart home?

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I question that I think was missing is a free form input for suggesting additional potential questions to be considered for use in any future surveys.

My read is they are trying to get different indications of the diversity of their users so they can work on broadening the appeal.

Like if it is all “Tech dudes” then there is opportunities for expansion.

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Home Assistant should market to service technicians more and create more marketable things or direct attention to the ability to have service technicians already looking for something to do in someone’s house set up home assistant.

THE HOME ASSISTANT
SERVICE TECHNICIAN
INCENTIVE PROGRAM

Then when the service technicians don’t know what to do you hire us forum dwellers to talk them through it.

Let me know where to send my resume :wink:

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I’m thinking… HA is limited to people who understand English. Is just a thought.

Somewhere in the middle of the survey I was asked if I understand English :rofl:

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we are asked things like whether we consider the community a welcoming place (forgot the exact wording). there’s no follow-up on those type of questions however, so my guess is no lessons learned there. Or understanding…

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I like that you added an “if” there to soften reality a bit :wink:

Let’s face it: at least the forum IS 90%+ “tech dudes”, with all pros and especially cons.

We would massively profit from a more diverse user base

Says me, a tech dude

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The blog post tells you why they have this survey. I haven’t been speaking from my point of view, I’ve been speaking from the intentions of the blog post. Sometimes things won’t be exactly what you want, you don’t need to announce that on every blog post.

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Is anyone else finding the survey just loads as a blank white page? It seems there might be some elements on the page, but they’re completely invisible.

I get the little HA icon and progress bar show up, then it just renders as white on white. No text is selectable so I can’t see what it says that way either. Looking at the DOM tree, it seems that there’s some elements missing.

Environment: Firefox 133.0.3 (64-bit) on Debian Sid, with the ublockorigin addon. Disabling ublockorigin didn’t seem to help.

Strongly agree with this. There were a few ESPHome questions - I answered in the manner in which I tried to infer the questions were intended but there was some ambiguity.

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I didn’t notice any of that, I used an iPhone (ios18.xx) w/ chrome.

Questions render correctly on Win10/FF as well.

All-in-all, a very nice survey! A bit longer but I didn’t mind - it’s a very minor investment of time to give back in a way.
There was a section that felt like it was repeating. Somewhere in the second half there were questions about our motivation for picking up HA but a bunch of similar questions came up early on in the survey. Perhaps good to review that for future surveys (next year :P).

A section on what we find most jarring / highest-friction would be good as well (i.e. if we could fix ONE thing with current resources, what would it be) as well as a section on any moonshot ideas we’d have (i.e. disregarding budget/resources/feasibility, what is ONE thing you’d love to see done).

Also, would be good to make it clear if you can stop part way and still have the answers you provided be useful. I personally didn’t mind the length of the survey but I know some people will - it’s a lot.

Great job to the survey designers and I’m looking fwd to reading what you glean from the data.

Happy Holidays all! :evergreen_tree:

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done. happy holoidays

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