> At one point, that kitchen light automation reached over 700 lines of YAML Now you know why it's broken
> If I had to count, I’d guess I have maybe 15 working automations across all my half-baked instances. That's it.
There is a big home automation channel in one of the Slacks I’m in.
It has been a running theme for years that people get Home Assistant, start trying to automate everything, frustrate their families, and then get forced to de-automate parts of the house because everyone around them is so fed up with it.
The endless debugging and tinkering is only fun for the person doing it, not the test subjects dealing with it. Even the tinkering gets old after a while and people end up with half-baked automations that they just live with, vowing to get back to it some day when the spark returns.