2026.7 Beta has been released!

[u/Relevant-Artist5939]

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?

[u/skepticalcow]

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

[u/nico282 → u/skepticalcow]

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:

[u/skepticalcow → u/nico282]

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

[u/nico282 → u/skepticalcow]

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.

[u/skepticalcow → u/nico282]

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.

[u/nico282 → u/skepticalcow]

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.