Home Assistant Features I Need In 2024!
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- It's that time of year again where I drop my Home Assistant features wish list for 2024! We are taking a look at the 5 predictions I made last year to see how many I got right, and making a brand new set of predictions for Home Assistant for the next 12 months.
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What are your Home Assistant predictions for 2024? Anything you are dying to see happen!? 👇🏻
I'm curious, if I have a matter device added to Home Assistant, will it also be visible and controllable in google home if I scan the QR code? in other words can I view and control a matter device from both HA and Google Nest/Home interchangeably?
I love the idea of granular security settings but I'm thinking the ability to lock users to a dashboard so I can give my kids control of their own room but not the whole house.
I hear you. In the meantime there is currently the ability to have a user see only certain cards. You can use a Conditional Card and then set the User as a condition for visibility of the card. You will see two tabs; one that says Conditions and the other Card, the Card tab is how you choose which type of card is actually displayed.
Cut and Pasting of cards will be essential to easily transition from your current dashboard to a conditional dashboard.
Yeah absolutely, that's what I would hope would be included as part of granular controls
But can't you have a tab for your kids and only give them access to that? :)
I predict that I still won’t have a working home assistant by 2025 because I’m lazy.
Why? It's really easy to set up
Laziness is the reason to use Hass...
@@schogaia HA is easy, but everything else is so fiddly. I’ve got buttons that don’t work and iot portals I need to keep signed into.. eh.. cheap devices are probably the problem but I thought that was the point of HA.
@@DamagedDingoyeah it’s a bit of a gamble with cheap devices. In my experience, cheap zigbee devices are much more reliable than cheap wifi devices. Plus no cloud creds is awesome
@@roycejamie8250yeah I just started moving to zigbee, but I bought some buttons with a dial that I wanted to use to control curtains and light but have no idea how as they don’t show up in searches at all. Then bought some zigbee light switches expecting the to have a single in/out for each switch but they are different too.
I'm sorry to be that guy but voice in HA is like voice recognition and control in the late 1990s - technically there but almost entirely useless. The biggest cloud vendors have issues with delivering usable voice control, and our little local systems running mostly on Raspberry Pis are nowhere near any practical usefulness.
Yeah voice control as a whole is kinda behind. Home Assistant is bottom of the barrel in that departments. So many other things they could’ve worked on in 2023 than improving something that honestly is going nowhere.
For me, organizing (grouping and tagging) the Automations is ESSENTIAL! Home Assistant has become extremely sophisticated and polished with Automations being able to be created 100% in the UI, and recently with newer terminology and grouping of conditions and actions. Organizing is the next logical step to further polish Automations.
But, yeah, I'm desperate for Automations grouping AND tagging. The tagging will be essential so that search can find what you are looking for instantly.
I'm using the HACS scheduler component with the lovelace scheduler card. Made a dashboard for my automation and created all the easier ones with that. I tagged the automations and then made groups on the dashboard. Imo the dev's should really look into integrating this. Maybe as an "easy builder" and you can switch back to the old automation when you need to do something more advanced.
Tagging is needed, but as their alpha sorted, i just add a "Notify - " as an example in front, easy to find the one to edit or duplicate.
I seriously want integrations to be creatable through the config file, you won't believe how many times that would make a lot of things just that much easier, sure, continue to add UI stuff, how about when I want to move some config from one setup to another, as it is now, I'll have to set everything up again, this is actually getting worse and worse each update,
Especially when it comes to things like the UI clearing all inputs if you misstype (ex: the host and port reseting if you type the wrong password)
One of the reasons I run a mix of hass and node:red at home
I'm working on something big with dashboards at the moment - hoping to have the first release out in the next 3 months or so!
User Privileges is a MUST. On top of that, access control credebtial management would be ncie to have. Currently you can sync pins to zigbee, zwave locks but its a very manual process, and I dont want to rely on third party projects, especially when its going in someone elses home, a vacation home, etc.
My #1 want is a better dashboard editor.
And better default layouts!
WYSIWYG would be quite cool. Or maybe more HTML in the page.
My main one is CarPlay and Android Auto with Home Assistant, drag and drop but I can’t see that happening but Fusion is coming along nicely. I would really like to see ollama being used for local ai with HA.
You know what I want to see? Sound! I have Home Assistant and I don;t know how to add bluetooth speakers in each room. Not talking aboult cloud options. All local connections. Give me that pls!!!
"You have a visitor!", "The laundry is done!" "Time to go to bed!"
Sure! That and paired speakers, so that you can have a few of them in the same room and listen to music in perfect sync.
I would buy a dedicated hardware voice assistant made by Nabu Casa, or by someone like Everything Smart Home.
I'd rather something that allows my Google Home Mini to be used without Google. I hate the idea of them just becoming E-waste.
@@tin2001I don’t have Google home but I did see a RUclipsr showing a conversion kit that replaced some of the internals and gave you voice on ha. Don’t have a link but it shouldn’t be too hard to find. Take care.
@@davideyres955 Onju voice is what you want to look for!
I hope there will be some integration with AI, last 2 years im dreaming about AI that will help you not only configure your home, but also with some tasks that the AI captured and you didnt realize and then make you an automation based on it and also help you make your home really smart, like jarvis
German is not at all well supported as end of Oktober 2023 - model tiny Took about a Minute to Computer and barely understood anything... Not cool
Dashboard editor/ designer overhaul including out of the box cards is my number 1,2,3,4 and 5 for 2024. Also this would drive higher adoption of home assistant more generally
Yep. I want a nice looking, full screen dashboard that scales to the screen I shove it onto.
I have old phones and tablets that I could easily "glue" to the wall to show me data. But I don't like that I have to do things that feel "hacky" to make it properly full screen.
It seems odd that this is something people have been creating custom hacks for almost 10 years now.
I would hope for a hack to make echo devices capable of being used locally with home assistant. For one as input devices are for voice control but also as network speakers to output notifications and music
Same for Google Home devices. I've got one that's been switched off for years. My girlfriend's got one that's never even been configured. Just E-waste at this stage. Google should unlock the bootloader and allow development on them.
Definitely wanting to see a turnkey solution for local smart assistant in both a dedicated speaker and a display (both good enough for music). Then also making them compatible as a speaker target for PlexAmp.
I’d like to see a more graphical automation creator like Node Red built in and a little more intuitive, much like that in the new Homey Pro. That’s the only thing that looks attractive in Homey vs HA.
Really hope automation grouping and user controls come this year.
Great predictions / wish list!
The ability to edit a scene without activating it. Small and Simple but defo needed
A local LLM integration is not that far of I think, especially now that there are better instruction following models available to download. You need a beefier hardware than a Raspberry Pi for an acceptable experience though. There are also some interesting integration options with MemGPT/AutoGPT.
I think it's actually pretty far away unless you want your HA server to be a 1500$ machine 😅
Let's see how many Lewis got right so far...
1. Automation Organization 😛✅
2. Voice Hardware 🤔🤔
3. Dashboard Overhaul 🤭✅
4. AI Control 🦙✅
5. Granular user controls 🤔
Those 🤔 hold some secrets that I NEED to know 😂
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 @@EverythingSmartHome
I'm waiting for granular user control since I've started using Home Assistant a few years ago: that's the only thing that prevents me from giving access to HA to my family members and implementing a couple of things I'd like to have. I really hope 2024 will be its year!
I'm a bit confused by comments like this. I have several family members of varying degrees of technical proficiency in my house. I've built a corresponding dashboard (with appropriate levels of complexity) for each of them, and ensured they can't access the other dashboards. Everyone in my house has been happy with this for years. Why wouldn't you just do the same?
@BallsworthBallsbury Because, even if you can build dashboards for them, they are still able to see entities and stuff they are not supposed to by, for example, simply opening the "logbook" or "history" sections.
Maybe for you that isn't a problem, but I like to monitor various things I'd like to keep for myself
I hope dashboard drag and drop comes ASAP
I think that having tags and notes as optional fields in all devices, entities, automations, scripts and blueprints, will be immensely helpful.
Firstly, searching will no longer be an issue across the board and the UI change is minimised just because it'll be the same implementation across all of the pages.
Secondly, it allows users to add custom notes (like battery notes, but not for batteries).
Finally, it'll allow us automators to group items flexibly using tags and search through our list of customised entities easily using templates.
I’d like to see a wizard for Bayesian sensors so dummies like me can use them.
What I need for 2024?
Your tutorial video on a tablet minimalist / mushroom dashboard 😊
We definitely need role based access control all around home assistant. That really is a bummer at the moment. I don't want the kids to be able seeing the logbook for instance
Agree. I'm not super worried about kids accessing settings or seeing any information they shouldn't.... I'm more worried about them, or my parents stumbling into a baffling screen full of battery voltages, free disk space and other things they don't understand while simply trying to turn the loungeroom lights off.
User privileges are greatly needed.
I would prefer if access grants could be added / dash object.I have 2 sons and they love to play with devices in their siblings room. Turning of ligt pr starting media at full blast.
- simple offset of readings :) no code
- stop f my zigbee ever time when update :)
I think number on priority needs to be automation and script organizing. I use Packages in YAML, I REALLY want Packages the UI so you can organize all your automations, scripts, helpers, sensors, etc. and group them for easier navigation. Second priority I think should be LOCAL AI integrations!
Would love to see work be done on the UI. Drag and drop cards would be nice.
One I might like would be the ability to combine devices within certain domains - for example, combining inputs to a portable AC unit and a radiator TRV so that control of a room's heating and cooling could all happen on a single dashboard climate card.
I want a way to "call" or "message" the voice Assistant using a software based solution, like mumble (open source, self-hostable VoIP software) for voice and IRC,xmpp, mattermost or email for text or matrix for both
Imagine "calling"(joining a voice channel) your home assistant, talking, and getting a response, all without needing to expose your hass/network to the internet
I pay about $5/month for a linode server, and it's hosting both my website, and xmpp+mumble
Now, I've almost managed to set up something like that (mumble) on a raspberry pi running the assist-satelite(wyoming-satelite and local wakeword detection), I just haven't managed to route assists audio in(mic), to mumbles audio out (speaker)
And the other way around, and once I do, it will be a huge bodge
Honestly I'd like to see the text ones as things you can add to your automations too, you shouldn't need assist to react to simple commands,
If Home Assistant came out with their own smart speaker that had full native HA support (including media playback, wake word detection, quality speakers), that would sell out so quick. I know I would buy one for each room
Ignorant, English-only Speaker? I didn’t realize we had allowed other languages to continue. Hasn’t the “English” language consumed all other languages?
I am most excited for automations sorting and dashboard overhaul/improvements. The others are neither here nor there.
I hope a better thick client for Mac. The current one is.... bad. Freezes, refreshes randomly...
As for the last point, not only new user roles, HA needs a complete RBAC. It's nonsense anyone can see everybody's location, for example. Dashboards are only "hide" from users, but they can access them if they get the url... security in HA it's a real mess.
As a newbie to HA... easier "just click a button and it detects everything" functionality
I can deal with logging into shit, but I need it to find what's on my network and perform some config for me. I have some smart tech but it just doesn't find any of it
I am still waiting for a proper upgrade to data insights in HA. People are collecting years of data, but we’re still stuck with that same buggy energy dashboard
Definitely dashboard editing needs to be enhanced +1 from me.
My extra “want” is better ability to edit, backup and restore entity history, especially for the energy dashboard
So does this mean you are turning into the Nostradamus of home assistant?
First step we need. Agreement on how to spell organization!
(joking...mostly)
Neural networks are gonna be essential for real smart homes.
As it's common in this age we're using terms way ahead of their times: we don't have smart homes, right now we're making (at most) autmatic homes.
There is nothing intrisicly smart in voice comands nor automations.
Smartness is about adaptability.
We'll enter the real smart home field when something will be able to read and ponder all our little devices, and orchestrate everything based on us without the need for automations nor anything else.
Dynamic Local Timer for voice assistant!
Node Red sentence can trigger a flow and they add a response voice assistant node so the voice triggering a question and dynamically create an answer opposed to currently in Node Red the sentence node has a fixed response.
As a new HA user who's still debugging stuff, I'd like to see *Devices* on the toolbar, rather than the current maze of clicks to get there.
Hi can you if you have not already done so cover controlling your gas combination boilers in ha. Especially if you are using the stock Rf room thermostat and receiver. Is they anything on the market that will emulate the the stock Rf thermostat without having to replace it whilst still using home assistant. Hope it make sense
Hi, Did you successfully integrated tuya iot devices with full features..?
Hello, I would like to see some integrations of external Gates but even better will be external video phone with electoral lock control. There are doorbells available but they don't have electrolock control.
I feel this is the year of AI. There seems to be a growing interest in allowing AI to be incorporated in a smart home especially since it will reduce the learning curve for enthusiasts
Organized automations will be a really really good improvement.
Also showing my naivety here as a new user (2 months) but why can't HACS come packaged with standard HA? Surely there can't be many people out there who don't use it for something?
Because the integrations in the Community Store are not controlled by Home Assistant and therefore they shouldn't have to provide support if something is broken. It's up to the user to walk that line.
You can filter automations by area/device/entity with the filter button in the top right.
I really cannot see the use for AI in home assistant just yet. Just because it's hyping, doesn't mean it is a solution to a HA problem.
Make creating automations more user-friendly (for beginners).
Would love better storage management. I often run out of space and very little idea what to do about it other than delete a couple of backups and run the purge service.
id love a way to give people temporary access on local network. I will have a "housesitter" soon for couple of weeks
I would like to see a better way of creating custom dashboards. Maybe drag a drop
8:49 yes, granular controls for users is a big hole in home assistant features. At least for homes with kids and elderly people that need an easy access to just their share of lights or devices.
HA automations kinda already places automation into some order.. going to setting/zones and then selecting a zone all the automations for those devices in that area are listed
Skynet ai soon 😄
There's an extended chatgpt that you can control device, really cool.
You can already assign automation to a room or area. I've been doing this for a while
We seriously need better guest and user controls. Its currently a joke.
I would like to see a comprehensive presence detection solution.
I wish they put some love in the energy dashboard
SECURITY and USER ACCESS to dashboards
Home assistant team are doing an amazing work ! I only wish people would recognized more home assistant like the plateforme to go.
Not only folder but also automatic rooms folders 😁
4 out of 5 ain't bad Lewis! I won't be greedy but would like 3/3 for mine:
1. An easily programmable thermostat (with user assignable/accessible schedules)
2. A voice doorbell/intercom (video is already doable) via ESPHome - would require voice/speaker on the mobile app too.
3. Private ToDo lists (ie only visible to the user that creates the list) - an easy win...
Yes! Please improve the dashboard!
I'm really hoping for the local llm
Better NAS support for automatic backup. It is simply too unreliable and I have gone from having daily backup to manually periodic backups because the mounting of NAS drives always fails
Would the next step development around AI not just be to be able to assign some sort of fallback in a voice pipeline, ie Conversation Agent 1 (Home Assistant) can't process your command or query so defer to Agent 2 (eg ChatGPT)? This would aggregate the local control of HA with the cloud power of ChatGPT, albeit not (yet) allowing queries like "what is the average temperature of rooms in the house".
Granular control of usere would be great! In general, I'd love to see a more "advanced" user control. As an example to help you understand what i mean by "advanced"... Being able to connect Home Assistant to an identity provider for SSO (without using the command line option obviously) and therefore syncronize users with an external provider, would be great... I mean I know this sounds a little bit too much but... Yeah, i have a dream 😂
easy, responsive dashboards, automation organisation, they would be nice. Pretty much agree with your wish list
I would really like HA to be able to use Coral TPU for voice assistant or AI in general, since some user already have it for frigate and it is quite a big deal.
Also, I would like to add a disk to my home assistant running on docker (Supervised), without using SMB...
Better control over the network stack is very much needed. Being able to set a default gateway, or even VLAN tagging would be great!
Granular user control, pleeeease! I've been waiting for ages to have this. I hope at least this prediction is right.
LLM making voice commands more flexible and maybe some way of HA guessing automations from users behavior, would be nice too.
Ah. And I Hope they would put consumption in €/$ per device in the energy dashboard. And not to have to make a workaround and put those devices into the Gas consumption to be able to see cost per device..
Other than that, a bette way to control the dashboard and cards to make it much more easy to resize etc.. drag drop.. etc
Dude. Have you any idea about llm‘s or are you just think it’s cool?
Honestly most ppl are running has on raspberry pi. How in the world would you be able to run any llm on that device?
I hear this year is going to be the Year of Matter, so what I'd love to see is them working on Emulated Matter for better interoperability with other platforms like Alexa or Google Home. The fact that in order to expose your HA stuff to Alexa for free requires you to dive in and create your own skill, which is stress inducing on a good day, is frankly a bit absurd to me.
Automation organization by labels would be amazing and is on my dream list. Growing off your granular control section, I would love a good way of having a guest user quickly be able to jump in to a simple dashboard. A UI upgade I've been hoping for for years is a refresh of the sidebar, being able to put things as a submenu or something would be amazing.
I predict that 2024 wont bring an update that doesn't break my automatuons
I hope this year brings some dashboard quality of life improvements and better control/support for media players. Having a native remote card or something with good controls would be great. Same goes for multiform audio
Is like to see a tighter integration with node red. I use it for all my automations. Not sure why but I like it.
Also, I never really use the dashboard. I occasionally hunt in the default one, but most control is done via Alexa
Maybe this year I'll use it more.
connect with RABBIT R1
Thank you Lewis, when the Everything presence will be available again?
Wish making a dashboard was like dwains dashboard with areas drag and drop and being able to customise but all without code
All can be edited easy from your phone
Allow more advanced automations. I have a node red automation that uses a schmitt trigger and power monitor to detect when the washing machine has finished. I would like to remove nodered and use python scriptlet ? as an automation in home assistant.
Yes to Nabu Casa hardware!
Almost 3 years in now, still don't regret choosing home assistant over homey
In their last year of the voice stream they already said they would like to create their own take on hardware for a voice assistant, so goo hope it will come true.
Agree, some form of role based authorization would be great!
Very good points.
I would like to see a simple version of node red natively in home assistant
For automation organization, I currently use numbers. I group all automations within a specific number range.
For example, the living room has a number range from 000 to 100, and so on. I name my automations using a format like #001 - Ceiling Light On. This way, I have an organized automation list, arranged by room or floor. This method has worked well for me; the only thing to keep in mind is remembering the number range assigned to each area.