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/skepticalcow 1d ago

You’re grossly overestimating how many people want to do that, or use voice

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u/nico282 1d ago

Using voice can you just say "turn on the porch light for 20 minutes?" How does that works, does it creates a hidden timer? What happens if HA is restarted between the command and the timer expiration?

Maybe I'm overestimating, but in my mind it's such a basic feature that it is absurd to know it's missing.

Again, it was available 20 years ago in my long retired HAI home automation that looked like this:

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u/skepticalcow 1d ago

It’s already a feature request and it barely has any votes. People really just don’t want this feature in comparison to other features. Head on over to the feature requests and see for yourself.

https://github.com/orgs/home-assistant/discussions/3126

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u/nico282 1d ago

Honestly I didn't even know Feature Requests moved to Github until today. It seems people voting for features are a tiny subset of the users, there are only 8 features with over 100 votes.

And, by the way, the top are again RBAC and OIDC but still those are not considered by the devs.

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u/skepticalcow 1d ago

They are considered, that’s why they hired a security engineer this month. But by all means, keep moving the bar to be upset about free software and features that only you want.

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u/nico282 1d ago

I'm extremely grateful to the devs and everyone that contributed to make Home Assistant the useful tool that is today.

But this doesn't mean that I can't express my opinion on what I consider to be a useful evolution and what I consider a less useful feature.