I wish I had some water meters that I could monitor to take advantage of the Energy dashboard, but sadly I don’t have a submeter I can access.

Home Assistant just keeps methodically getting better!

This update seems pretty tame from the release notes, but I was worried about the python update.

I have a lot of HACS integrations, and several HACS custom repository integrations that are updated very slowly when things get updated around them.

I’m happy to report that all of my integrations work just fine after the update.

HA is fantastic once you’re past the learning curve but is still aggressively unintuitive sometimes, and I find little irritants all the time. Why can’t you make the Settings pages and sub-pages top level menu items? Why are entities and devices buried so deep in Settings? Why can’t you edit Zones from the Map view? Why can’t you easily rename entities in bulk on a per-device basis? Why can’t you automatically replace entity references in Automations with an updated entity name? Why isn’t there good documentation overall about how the system works instead of just technical documentation with narrow focuses? Why is the discord full of Linux elitist types who expect you to know the system when you’re trying to learn it?

It’s the little things everywhere that make me long for a Valve Software level of polish. There has been progress like the push to not manually configure things with YAML, but it’s so slow.

Any smart bulbs we can still flash? Once they’re set up and joined, I want to use the BT for presence detection.

Really impressed with the way they keep building this out.