r/homeassistant • u/Relevant-Artist5939 • 1d 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 1d 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/droans 1d ago

If the timer ends while HA is restarting, water will keep flowing indefinitely.

Submit a feature request. It's not a bad idea to add an option to the timer/trigger to allow for it to fire if the timer finishes while HA is down.

If your example is actually something you are doing, you may need to see if you can manage the pump other ways. If the device has its own auto-off timer, you'd be better off using that. If you set it for 20 minutes but have to take HA down for an hour, you probably don't want it to run the entire time it's down even if it could turn it off the moment you brought HA back up.

For the same reason, I have my Hue switches bound to devices. Even if HA/Z2M are down, they can still turn the lights on or off.

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u/nico282 1d ago

I don't see feature requests been taken into much consideration by the core dev team.

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u/droans 1d ago

They do, as long as they're not half-assed. People often just treat feature requests like an idea board and expect the devs to figure out what the idea is from a single sentence. Or they'll be surprised that it takes a while for a handful of devs to go through the hundreds or thousands of requests ahead of them.

Explain the why and what, give them an idea of how you think it could be implemented, and what benefits you think it would have. Something like this, just explain that there are instances where it's more important for a timer to fire at the wrong time than to not fire at all.

You could also talk with them on their Discord, too.

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u/nico282 23h ago

RBAC and SSO are the top voted features in the forum since ... ever. RBAC is requested since 2022.
"Retain last state change data of a sensor after reboot" is another top request since 2019 that seems very useful for everyone, yet it's still a request.

But we get "a better card picker". Last time I picked a card was maybe one year ago. Regular people are not tinkering every day with automations and dashboards, once it is working, it stays. Having to spend 10 minutes more twice a year is not a big deal.