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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

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  1. voidnullvalue · · focus · HN ↗
    Nabu Kasa keeps ignoring the elephant in the room of security and permissions. They have no native ability to set user groups and permissions. There is no serious RBAC. I guess it doesn't sell cloud subscriptions. I cant keep my children from affecting devices they shouldn't. I ended up replacing my automation with mqtt
    1. alerighi · · focus · HN ↗
      That is something not required in a domestic setting, that is what HomeAssistant is designed for. I don't know why your children needs to have access to HA (or the internet afterall).
      1. voidnullvalue · · focus · HN ↗
        Ok so i am wrong to want interface panels to control things with Home Assistant because I have kids?
        1. peterclary · · focus · HN ↗
          You can choose whether to make a user an admin, and you can specify certain dashboards to be admin only. My wall panels are all logged in with a non-admin user specific to that panel, set to show only what I want anyone to access.

          Some of us in the family are logged into dashboards on our phones with different users, which update depending on which room we are in.

          If you want to gate access to certain functionality on a dashboard designed for a common area, you would need to route to a different dashboard upon providing some kind of authorisation, e.g. an onscreen PIN pad.

          Happy to discuss.

      2. pessimizer · · focus · HN ↗
        > That is something not required in a domestic setting

        We didn't know you'd declared this. I hope there are temporary solutions available while your declaration is communicated to everybody else.

      3. phoghed · · focus · HN ↗
        I'll send you $1 in a crypto coin of your choice if you can think of one good use case that would benefit from this
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