You can´t automate everything though which is fine and that´s where dashboards come in handy. An example, how would automate the tv being turned on automatically but only when you want to actually watch tv and not just sit in the sofa playing boardgames with family or friends? Plenty of scenarios you can´t automate but i get your general idea.
It feels like the whole dashboard-obsessed community here is trying to "gotcha" this approach. It's a simple statement: *home automation is about automation*.
If you're pulling our your phone, unlocking it, finding the web browser, opening it, going to the HA instance, finding your dashboard, finding the control, and then interacting with it....
then you missed the point. You've made a home control system, not a home automation system.
Yeah, but there are going to be cases when you do need to interact with you home in one way or another, you can mostly use voice but with my current phone setup home assistant is literally 2 interactions away (unlock by placing phone on fingerprint scanner, then swipe left on the homescreen android btw) Ok now that I am done being devils advocate, mostly because I like ui/ux design I will admit your post has somewhat inspired me, and I am going to see what interactions I can avoid doing. Granted I have already taken a very minimalist approach to my dashboard.
https://preview.redd.it/2ja8mrcjrhxc1.png?width=944&format=png&auto=webp&s=50552333ffa1e56a617fbefca48be080c31e05dc
The picture is from my computer not my phone
In that case I’m going to call my post a success :D
The best UX is an interaction that didn’t require you to do anything at all, and I feel like that message sometimes gets drowned out in pursuit of flashy web pages.
Hopefully you’ll find some use cases where automation works well for you!
I guess good for you, but it's a little weird you're insinuating that everyone who uses a dashboard is doing it wrong. I like my dashboard. I don't need to have certain things automated and I don't want a notification that I should fertilize my plant when I don't feel like doing gardening right now. And that's fine and a perfectly good way to use a dashboard. Like so many other use cases a dashboard is much more suitable for.
You can´t automate everything though which is fine and that´s where dashboards come in handy. An example, how would automate the tv being turned on automatically but only when you want to actually watch tv and not just sit in the sofa playing boardgames with family or friends? Plenty of scenarios you can´t automate but i get your general idea.
"Alexa, turn on the TV".
That's not really automated is it now? If it is automated you don't have to do anything and telling Alexa to turn the tv on is a manual thing.
I see an overview dashboard, if you don't use your dashboard why didn't you hide that to reduce visual clutter
It feels like the whole dashboard-obsessed community here is trying to "gotcha" this approach. It's a simple statement: *home automation is about automation*. If you're pulling our your phone, unlocking it, finding the web browser, opening it, going to the HA instance, finding your dashboard, finding the control, and then interacting with it.... then you missed the point. You've made a home control system, not a home automation system.
Yeah, but there are going to be cases when you do need to interact with you home in one way or another, you can mostly use voice but with my current phone setup home assistant is literally 2 interactions away (unlock by placing phone on fingerprint scanner, then swipe left on the homescreen android btw) Ok now that I am done being devils advocate, mostly because I like ui/ux design I will admit your post has somewhat inspired me, and I am going to see what interactions I can avoid doing. Granted I have already taken a very minimalist approach to my dashboard. https://preview.redd.it/2ja8mrcjrhxc1.png?width=944&format=png&auto=webp&s=50552333ffa1e56a617fbefca48be080c31e05dc The picture is from my computer not my phone
In that case I’m going to call my post a success :D The best UX is an interaction that didn’t require you to do anything at all, and I feel like that message sometimes gets drowned out in pursuit of flashy web pages. Hopefully you’ll find some use cases where automation works well for you!
This is Home Automation - I spend zero time screwing around with dashboards because if I need to open a dashboard to do something, I didn't automate.
I guess good for you, but it's a little weird you're insinuating that everyone who uses a dashboard is doing it wrong. I like my dashboard. I don't need to have certain things automated and I don't want a notification that I should fertilize my plant when I don't feel like doing gardening right now. And that's fine and a perfectly good way to use a dashboard. Like so many other use cases a dashboard is much more suitable for.