Home Assistant Features I Need In 2024!

First step we need. Agreement on how to spell organization!
(joking...mostly)

Agree, some form of role based authorization would be great!

I hope this year brings some dashboard quality of life improvements and better control/support for media players. Having a native remote card or something with good controls would be great. Same goes for multiform audio

As a new HA user who's still debugging stuff, I'd like to see Devices on the toolbar, rather than the current maze of clicks to get there.

Home assistant team are doing an amazing work ! I only wish people would recognized more home assistant like the plateforme to go.

Not only folder but also automatic rooms folders 😁

Skynet ai soon 😄

We seriously need better guest and user controls. Its currently a joke.

I am still waiting for a proper upgrade to data insights in HA. People are collecting years of data, but we’re still stuck with that same buggy energy dashboard

id love a way to give people temporary access on local network. I will have a "housesitter" soon for couple of weeks

HA automations kinda already places automation into some order.. going to setting/zones and then selecting a zone all the automations for those devices in that area are listed

Id love to have a Code Assistant for NodeRed....

You can already assign automation to a room or area. I've been doing this for a while

There's an extended chatgpt that you can control device, really cool.

Granular control of usere would be great! In general, I'd love to see a more "advanced" user control. As an example to help you understand what i mean by "advanced"... Being able to connect Home Assistant to an identity provider for SSO (without using the command line option obviously) and therefore syncronize users with an external provider, would be great... I mean I know this sounds a little bit too much but... Yeah, i have a dream 😂

I’d like to see a more graphical automation creator like Node Red built in and a little more intuitive, much like that in the new Homey Pro. That’s the only thing that looks attractive in Homey vs HA.

Yes! Please improve the dashboard!

Definitely dashboard editing needs to be enhanced +1 from me.
My extra “want” is better ability to edit, backup and restore entity history, especially for the energy dashboard

I hope a better thick client for Mac. The current one is.... bad. Freezes, refreshes randomly...

The ability to edit a scene without activating it. Small and Simple but defo needed

I would like to see a better way of creating custom dashboards. Maybe drag a drop

Hi, Did you successfully integrated tuya iot devices with full features..?

In their last year of the voice stream they already said they would like to create their own take on hardware for a voice assistant, so goo hope it will come true.

As a newbie to HA... easier "just click a button and it detects everything" functionality

I can deal with logging into shit, but I need it to find what's on my network and perform some config for me. I have some smart tech but it just doesn't find any of it

Very good points.

Ignorant, English-only Speaker? I didn’t realize we had allowed other languages to continue. Hasn’t the “English” language consumed all other languages?

Automation organization by labels would be amazing and is on my dream list. Growing off your granular control section, I would love a good way of having a guest user quickly be able to jump in to a simple dashboard. A UI upgade I've been hoping for for years is a refresh of the sidebar, being able to put things as a submenu or something would be amazing.

Yes to Nabu Casa hardware!

Make creating automations more user-friendly (for beginners).

with few hundreds devices and few thousands entities, I have only ONE automation in HA. Everything else - tones I mean - is in NodeRed. Reason being: not user friendly, not GUI friendly Automation subsystem in HA.

easy, responsive dashboards, automation organisation, they would be nice. Pretty much agree with your wish list

As for the last point, not only new user roles, HA needs a complete RBAC. It's nonsense anyone can see everybody's location, for example. Dashboards are only "hide" from users, but they can access them if they get the url... security in HA it's a real mess.

Organized automations will be a really really good improvement.

I would like to see a comprehensive presence detection solution.

Llama is far too big to even hope using it locally, try to look at Mistral AI instead, it's a new open source model, only a 7B so small enough to run on consumer grade hardware, but still very promising, already beating GPT 3.5 in a lot of tasks and their new version, only available with API for now, beat GPT 4 IN CODE ! and they are also launching their own API service if you don't want to buy a 2000€ GPU to run it yourself, and the price per token is something like 2€ for 1 million tokens

Would love better storage management. I often run out of space and very little idea what to do about it other than delete a couple of backups and run the purge service.

I wish they put some love in the energy dashboard

Hi can you if you have not already done so cover controlling your gas combination boilers in ha. Especially if you are using the stock Rf room thermostat and receiver. Is they anything on the market that will emulate the the stock Rf thermostat without having to replace it whilst still using home assistant. Hope it make sense

I want a way to "call" or "message" the voice Assistant using a software based solution, like mumble (open source, self-hostable VoIP software) for voice and IRC,xmpp, mattermost or email for text or matrix for both

Imagine "calling"(joining a voice channel) your home assistant, talking, and getting a response, all without needing to expose your hass/network to the internet
I pay about $5/month for a linode server, and it's hosting both my website, and xmpp+mumble

Now, I've almost managed to set up something like that (mumble) on a raspberry pi running the assist-satelite(wyoming-satelite and local wakeword detection), I just haven't managed to route assists audio in(mic), to mumbles audio out (speaker)
And the other way around, and once I do, it will be a huge bodge



Honestly I'd like to see the text ones as things you can add to your automations too, you shouldn't need assist to react to simple commands,

Hello, I would like to see some integrations of external Gates but even better will be external video phone with electoral lock control. There are doorbells available but they don't have electrolock control.

Neural networks are gonna be essential for real smart homes.
As it's common in this age we're using terms way ahead of their times: we don't have smart homes, right now we're making (at most) autmatic homes.
There is nothing intrisicly smart in voice comands nor automations.
Smartness is about adaptability.
We'll enter the real smart home field when something will be able to read and ponder all our little devices, and orchestrate everything based on us without the need for automations nor anything else.

I'm currently using a custom repository "extended openai conversation" which allows use of open AI and controls smart home devices. I can combine commands and it's pretty intuitive on not using the exact phrasing which is nice.

My last step is to build a LLMs to keep everything local. This way you just point it to an internal website as the cloud solution requires an API key and you only get a limited number of API calls, this keeps it all local. Combined with SpotCast I can already do a lot of what you want nabu casa to create

I would like to see them release a version that can somewhat learn your voice locally and ignore background noise similar to how Google and Alexa work but that may require cloud resources, to accomplish, especially on a raspberry pi.

So you can get a complete local chat GPT like setup now, there are videos on how to set it up. You will always need some external source for news or weather in a different country though as it has to get that current data from somewhere

I'm using an add-on that uses a USB conference speakerphone and works with wake words similar to the video you did on rhasspy a year or so ago. .

You can filter automations by area/device/entity with the filter button in the top right.

If Home Assistant came out with their own smart speaker that had full native HA support (including media playback, wake word detection, quality speakers), that would sell out so quick. I know I would buy one for each room

Let's see how many Lewis got right so far...

1. Automation Organization 😛✅
2. Voice Hardware 🤔🤔
3. Dashboard Overhaul 🤭✅
4. AI Control 🦙✅
5. Granular user controls 🤔

Dynamic Local Timer for voice assistant!

Node Red sentence can trigger a flow and they add a response voice assistant node so the voice triggering a question and dynamically create an answer opposed to currently in Node Red the sentence node has a fixed response.

Would love to see more granular control over profiles. I want to put HA on my kid’s phone for viewing cams outside and light control for their room and common areas. Locking them down to a dashboard I made just for them would be great. Fingers crossed it comes soon.

What are your Home Assistant predictions for 2024? Anything you are dying to see happen!? 👇🏻