Completely agree. More so because font sizing is IMHO all over the place. I'm using my OS and browsers' zoom because I'm visually impaired and than Lemmy is kind of a mess.
> If the group owner did not log in during the in-app notification period, they were then emailed (the email you received today) notifying that the group was impacted.
I think there is a glitch in your mail or something else is going wrong. I'm currently not in any groups and still got an e-mail telling me that my top level group (starting with 5060) has reached the 5 members limit. Searching for the group also doesn't yield any results whatsoever.
I get where you are coming from, but why not? What IKEA produces for the price is seriously impressive. Also why would you need particle board or MDF when filling furniture with cardboard is way cheaper and mostly fits the bill.
However, I think that we as software developers are more like hand crafted furniture makers. And that there is WYSIWYG (like Squarespace) for the masses. And IMHO there is nothing wrong with that.
I would argue the LACK table is the textbook definition of a good MVP. Minimal, light, affordable, functional. Granted, I remember when it was $7.99, but the point stands.
I bought the first Cities: Skylines because I'm a massive SimCity fan. Ever since SimCity 2000 that I received for my birthday as a child (in a bundle with Theme Hospital). But the text and UI were way too small for me. So I couldn't play the game. I even created my own (very simple) mod [1], but I never got around to playing the game. I hope the developers will address this issue and implement proper UI / text scaling.
for me that happened because of interference. I switched from a Conbee II to a Sonoff Dongle-P and that already helped tremendously. That new dongle is way more stable for me. Also I changed my wifi and Zigbee channels and reduced the transmit power for less interference. Since than my Zigbee netwerk is really stable.
Updating the firmware in my sonoff dongle-p made a massive difference in network stability. It's a bit of a mission to get the update installed but was well worth it.
> My philosophy with HA is not to touch it too much.
I get where you are coming from, but for me updating hasn't given me any issues since about a year or so. Especially if you stick with the .2 or higher releases. Those are really stable.
Yeah I have the same approach - I don't update the second a new release comes out, and check the comments to see what the earlybirds have encountered just in case it's a bad release.
Personally I haven't had any issues for a while now, prior to that it was the Python upgrade and all the Z-Wave changes that caught me out. That's all stable now though so updates don't stress me out much.
I have been running Home Assistant for over 4 years (end of 2018) and and the beginning was rough. However since about a year and a half, a lot has done to improve stability. I can now safely update every time without breaking anything. The only integrations that break from time to time are custom integrations, which aren't supported anyway. But those have become rarer too. Automations and scripts have been stable for years now. And the release notes are also really, really good.
I would recommend to take another look at HA if you get the chance. Especially within a VM (or bare metal) it's a really good experience.
> Especially within a VM (or bare metal) it's a really good experience.
I've been using the Docker container for a couple years without incident. Like you, the only integrations that occasionally broke have been custom components.
While I agree that automations and scripts have been very stable, I've never really been a fan of the new automations and scripts UI, though, so I just stick to editing the YAML definitions manually. Great to have that option.
> I've been using the Docker container for a couple years without incident.
Before I ran HA Supervised [1], but that was a pretty poor experience. It broke every so often because of some sudden software incompatibility because Supervisor was silently updated in the background. And it really broke everything instead of having a grace period and/or sending me a notification.
> I've never really been a fan of the new automations and scripts UI, though, so I just stick to editing the YAML definitions manually.
Same here. Although things seem to improve in the next version with copy-paste support in the Automation Editor [2]. I would love being able to edit my YAML automations though.
Did you also known about a little known feature that you can setup different automation sources? Just like this:
Although not _best practice_ per se, you can have both UI and YAML automations at the same time. This is especially useful when you want to use Blueprints [3].
