Welcome to the month of “What the heck?!”

Home Assistant is now almost around for 7 years! During that time, it has grown
into a big project, beloved by many of you. However, as the project grew, some
things might not have turned out the way it should be, are missing or maybe even
started annoying you. That is what this month is about.

We realize reporting bugs on our GitHub might be a steep hill.
You’ll need a GitHub account, report an issue following the issue templates
using Markdown and the report itself needs to be written in a way a developer
can work with it. Furthermore, we use our issue tracker for tracking actual
issues and bugs; not small feature requests or annoyances.

While this is a common and reasonable process to collect, track and process
bugs, our issue tracking process might not be the ideal way to learn about
annoyances or small tweaks and improvements that can make us all enjoy
Home Assistant even more.

In May, of this year, the Ruby on Rails project had a similar month,
which we have enjoyed watching. Now, we are going to do something similar.

Today, we have opened up a Community Forum category as a safe, lower
barrier place to tell about your Home Assistant “What the heck?!” moments,
and more importantly, discuss and vote on topics your fellow users have
brought up.

Frenck recently tried something similar for Home Assistant on Twitter,
by asking:

The responses to that question were amazing! Full of inspiration, recognition of
stuff that annoyed us as well, but also some really really good suggestions.
And this is not just about new tiny little things, examples may include:

  • I’d love to see some Home Assistant sensors with things like: The total
    automations, triggers processed this hour, the total number of integrations,
    entities, number of events fired.
  • I want to be able to upload a backup on the frontend on the first install.
  • Maybe you are annoyed by some logs that you need to refresh and scroll to see
    updates?
  • You have a lot of template entities that all do the same thing and maybe could
    be handled by Home Assistant automatically.
  • Always need a workaround to automate something the way you like and really
    wished Home Assistant provided a better trigger/condition for it?

These are the things we are looking for, the things we should share this month.

We are really looking forward to all the stuff that will be brought up!
This will be interesting!

Join us on the forums!

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So, when does Home Assistant trigger this moment for you?

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