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
I think they're reading their audience and making the correct product choice.
Home Assistant users are the power users of the home automation world, but even among their user base I think the number of users who would use a full set of groups and permissions controls in their home is very small.
This is a feature that would take a lot of engineering effort and only make the product more complicated for most of their users. The part of their user base that did use it would probably never be happy because they wanted something even more specific.
Their basic permissions and control structure covers most of the common use cases. Going further would be 100X more work for something that would only be used by a very small minority of users.
The thing is there are tons of "passive" automations that you still might want.
For instance, I left my garage freezer door open, in summer, once. The loss of food almost made me cry (just from the pure waste of it all). I have temp monitors now (external, with probes into fridges and freezers) as well as door sensors. If I am dumb and leave them open, or if they break I'm going to get a notification.
Windows/doors open, and it starts raining, alert... I have a whole set of alerts on when to open the windows too based on season and inside vs outside temp. I have seen a savings on my bills for heating and cooling.
Reminders of all kinds when it's not optimal to run the oven, or appliances because of power costs.
To each their own, but honestly I wouldn't want any of those. I don't even like that my car has electronic locks and a keyfob, I just couldn't find a used car with mechanical locks/ignition that wasn't likely to be a money pit.
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Aurornis · · focus · HN ↗
Home Assistant users are the power users of the home automation world, but even among their user base I think the number of users who would use a full set of groups and permissions controls in their home is very small.
This is a feature that would take a lot of engineering effort and only make the product more complicated for most of their users. The part of their user base that did use it would probably never be happy because they wanted something even more specific.
Their basic permissions and control structure covers most of the common use cases. Going further would be 100X more work for something that would only be used by a very small minority of users.
zer00eyz · · focus · HN ↗
In the age of agents everywhere this is no longer true or viable.
It's going to be hard for them to do it, for historic and legacy code reasons. But it's long past being a choice and now becoming a need.
krapp · · focus · HN ↗
No matter how crazy smart AI gets it's not going to be able to hack my doors, lights or thermostat.
zer00eyz · · focus · HN ↗
For instance, I left my garage freezer door open, in summer, once. The loss of food almost made me cry (just from the pure waste of it all). I have temp monitors now (external, with probes into fridges and freezers) as well as door sensors. If I am dumb and leave them open, or if they break I'm going to get a notification.
Windows/doors open, and it starts raining, alert... I have a whole set of alerts on when to open the windows too based on season and inside vs outside temp. I have seen a savings on my bills for heating and cooling.
Reminders of all kinds when it's not optimal to run the oven, or appliances because of power costs.
krapp · · focus · HN ↗