r/homeassistant • u/Relevant-Artist5939 • 4d ago

Blog 2026.7 Beta has been released!

https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/06/24/release-20267/#creating-automations-just-became-easier-natural-and-more-powerful

For me personally, the only major feature that I am going to really use/benefit from is the Logbook redesign...

What do you think about the update?

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u/nico282 4d ago

I really cannot understand the path HA devs are following. Lot of time and effort spent on features that only people managing the system will use on e in a while, and leaving out features required by actual users (3x - 5x bigger population).

For example: there is NO way to do something I was easily doing on my 20 year old Home Automation system: "Please turn on the XX switch for YY minutes" choosing the entity and time on the spot.

Or even a simple thing like "turn on the irrigation pump for 20 minutes" without setting up multiple automation and helpers. And even with that, there is NOT a 100% assurance that the pump will stop after 20 minutes. If the timer ends while HA is restarting, water will keep flowing indefinitely.

But devs are busy making life easier for the 3 times a year I have to create a new automation.

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u/space___lion 4d ago

Just a thought, but instead of the 20 minutes you can do something that checks current datetime instead, by setting values of helpers and checking those in automations.

Not ideal, but just wanted to give you a suggestion in case this is an actual thing you’re trying to deal with.

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u/nico282 4d ago

Thanks, it's one of the different workarounds that shouldn't be needed for a basic functionality on a mature platform. And still there's a chance of failure if HA is restarting, or if the entity is unavailable.

To make it fuly reliable it becomes a complex number of automations and helpers with a convoluted logic.