Any good alternatives to Home Assistant? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by BitSound@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a self hosted HA deployment that hasn't been updated in a while. I haven't updated it partially because they made the boneheaded move of deprecating their YAML config in favor of GUI-only config, and partially because the developers are insufferable dickholes.

I should probably move off of the deployment that I've got right now at some point, but what are people currently using for home automation? Is anyone running a newer version of HA that thinks it's not actually that bad?

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[-] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 9 months ago

Personally, I haven't run into a situation where I could only configure something via UI. There's always been an option to toggle between a UI editor, and just a text editor for the appropriate YAML. There could be exceptions that I haven't encountered, but they're definitely few and far between.

[-] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

i guess the issue is not that you can't use yaml but instead that a lot of things are removed from the actual config.yaml file. inuser tonhave all integrations set up in that file, after every update i get a notification, that this is deprecated for that integration and that i should remove it and use the gui setup instead. i have my config in git which saved me from needing backups, because all was already configured and could be redeployed at any time to another machine. now that is not possible anymore.

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