Understanding Our Community: The 2024 Home Assistant Survey

The question on I program HA has not enough options. I am not using the GUI and not using YAML. And there was no ‘other’ option. All my automations are done in pyscrypt (custom via HACS).

I left those blank because they are entirely irrelevant to anything

Conversation.

“Ok Nabu, can you let my partner/wife/husband/girlfriend/child know I’ll be late today?”

Response: “No problem! Sending him/her/them a notification now. Would you like me to also notify him/her/them when you start traveling home?”

From the comments here, I think we need a survey about the survey :wink:

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Correct,
There seems to be a large number of specialists in this field here on the forum who know exactly what they would like to answer.
So obviously the wrong questions were asked.

Quite logical thinking :rofl:

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Nothing. At that point I stopped filling it out. Completely unnecessary political stuff.

Such a useful and very brave decision. Thanks for sharing.
I hope the HA crowd has learned their part. :rofl:

Survey well done… Look forward to data. Will you abstract “opinions”?
As a Very Old Home Automation guy I thought the technically oriented questions were well done. No questions about Altair, Apple or IBM PC based systems though… :slight_smile:

Regards, Terry King
…In The Woods In Vermont
The one who dies with the most Parts LOSES! WHAT DO YOU NEED??

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Some people feel less welcome if they aren’t acknowledged. An open pronoun helps keep the door open to more people. :man_shrugging:t3: Seems worthwhile. It’s not necessarily about the smart home itself, but building the community.

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Just guessing, but perhaps some preparations to include this in TTS, so that HA responces won’t offend some members of our community addressing them as he/she?

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WTH - I was in the middle of the survey late last night and decided to finish it today, but all the text from my previous answers under “Other” is gone!

The problem with pronouns (or actually, with people) is that some people feel less welcome when they aren’t asked for them, and others feel less welcome when they are.
There are plenty of languages that don’t have gendered pronouns at all. That’s one less thing to argue about, but I trust people who speak those languages will find something else to be offended by.

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“My smart home is built with consideration for the lifespan of devices to promote sustainability.” What does that mean?
Does it mean “i don’t buy cheap alix crap for my smart home because it breaks all the time and that’s bad for the environment”? Or does it mean “my home is smart so my devices last longer and that’s good for the environment”

Snap Bro that was my coment beck to them…

In all my years on these forums, you are the first to say this. If included in a survey of Home Assistant users, your response would be the period on the left side of the Bell-curve.

“It means what you want it to mean. When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

It doesn’t matter why you chose devices, only if lifespan and sustainability mean something to you.

When interpreting the answers to questionnaires, an essential assumption is that all respondents are answering the same question, otherwise your data gathering is useless. I may care about lifespan but not about sustainability. Or the other way around. A piece of housing made of alumin(i)um will last longer than plastic but will take a lot more energy to make.
I think it is good for the usefulness of the survey if the OP can clarify this question and others that have been unclear to posters in this thread.

While not using poorly-made devices that will break regardless of usage in a few years also promote sustainability I believe this question refers to devices that somehow depend on cloud services.

At least I think that if an IoT product in anyway depend on a cloud service to work as it was design then it can not be said to 100% promote sustainability, and that indirectly also includes devices that require a specific app for configuration too.