WTH Do I still need to be a rocket scientist to get things done in HA

[parautenbach (Pieter Rautenbach)]

@maxym

@parautenbach, the question was about ways and options for newcomers, how to to smoothly propose alternatives to yaml to newcomers. Encouraging using NR instead of yaml would be the way. Not discouraging means doing nothing to give them an option, thus most of them is forced to learn yaml. It’s quite logical.

You accused people on the forum as being against NR, which was what I opposed. It’s simply not true, given the forum even caters for it. Personally, I don’t think NR is a simple alternative for newcomers, since now people need to deal with the apparent confusion between add-ons and integrations, a second piece of software, another set of nomenclature, and so forth. So, I don’t think NR is the way for newcomers, but I have nothing against it. Given newcomers will start with simpler tasks, HA’s built-in automation UI editor should be more than sufficient.