Home Assistant’s Month of “What the Heck?!” is back for November 2026. Tell us what makes Home Assistant hard to use, whether you set it up or just live with it.
I think you misunderstood. They are asking for things the users find hard, confusing or annoying. The vast majority of users, every year, says that roll based permissions are at the top of that list.
I mean, their yaml editor still deletes comments. If I’ve barely learned how to make something something work, a little #comment in the yaml would really help future-me know where to look to learn it all over again, or even just wtf I was thinking with some {{template}}
Haha I do every year, at least by way of voting. Did it again this year even though it seems like it’ll never happen.
Also voted for the SSO one that comes along every year, but is admittedly not as voted for. Funny thing is, there’s a mostly working HACS integration for SSO, so it should be “relatively” easy to implement natively.
Except one of the #1 things that has been brought up in every previous one has never been addressed, and that is role based permissions.
If I want a guest to be able to control certain things, I can set them up a dashboard but they can still look at all devices and their history.
If I want my kid to be able to turn on certain lights, I can’t restrict them from opening the garage or messing with my office lighting.
HA is super, super powerful. But that’s a double edged sword when you can’t restrict people from interacting with certain devices.
from the month of WTH announce post:
we know many of these things can be done. the point is that they are annoying or hard to do
I think you misunderstood. They are asking for things the users find hard, confusing or annoying. The vast majority of users, every year, says that roll based permissions are at the top of that list.
Here it is again! 153 votes, double the nearest competitor:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-cant-i-control-what-other-users-can-access-rbac/1030886
They’ve been doing a pretty good job this year of focusing on quality of life and ease of use, so there’s hope
I dunno, multiple years of silence on the issue has soured my hopes considerably.
I really want that to be implemented but it seems HASS was really never considered and now it is a gargantuan effort to implement it.
but I hope they do it, even if it takes them long to get there.
I mean, their yaml editor still deletes comments. If I’ve barely learned how to make something something work, a little #comment in the yaml would really help future-me know where to look to learn it all over again, or even just wtf I was thinking with some {{template}}
This. And it is not THAT easy to make (and maintain) different dashboards for different profiles.
Add your voice to the item and then at least you can complain when it doesn’t get done
Haha I do every year, at least by way of voting. Did it again this year even though it seems like it’ll never happen.
Also voted for the SSO one that comes along every year, but is admittedly not as voted for. Funny thing is, there’s a mostly working HACS integration for SSO, so it should be “relatively” easy to implement natively.