I love these kinds of discussions so… no biting, scratching, spitting, throwing food or pulling hair
And for the love of all that is holy… don’t turn this into a file/UI blood bath
file config is not going anywhere… period
Some of my favorites so far:
I think this could be a real key to helping new users get a true automation system up and running while knowing very little about how it works. We had a great discussion about a year ago about the first time user’s experience. This has since been greatly improved, I see Rich’s vision of rules templates as being the next step. Once installed, light bulb discovered, UI has graphic representation of light bulb and it works… now what?
Rules templates can be plug and play simple automations for common scenarios
After awhile we have tons of them. Make a searchable library of them. Make a little wizard to help you sent them up.
I like this idea and I’ll take it one step further…
build in the astro binding!!!
I searched and searched and could not find the thread where I first suggested it but why is the astro binding a binding???
Why is it not built in?
The first time setup gets your location
this is a home automation system, in other words it doesn’t move around
Knowing when the sun will rise and set are such common automation requirements I think the astro binding should be built into the system and not a seperate binding/addon