crimson abyss
So I've found that scene.create snapshots don't persist across restarts of HA, and that this is intentional. Alright.
But turning lights off and back on as they were (and reliably so) based on presence detection strikes me as a, if not the, fundamental home automation task.
How do you all achieve this? Clearly I must be missing something. (I've also raised this over on the forums, just polling for ideas here as well.)
obtuse crystal
I think there's talk of making them persistent. In general, I would say that 'as they were' in a Home Assistant context would be a scene or a script or something that you could simply reapply
crimson abyss
I couldn't find that talk, frenck/balloob replied on Mastodon that it's intentional 🙂 Where is that, I'd love to upvote?
People have this annoying habit to fiddle with lights to their liking and don't like it when they revert to what the hard-defined scene says just because they went to take a shower, I'm getting some pushback on that (from myself as well) 🙂
obtuse crystal
Ideally, you'd figure out what's causing people (including yourself) to manually fiddle with the lighting and try to automate that 🙂
I don't recall where I saw that
crimson abyss
That seems like trying to redefine a missing reasonable feature as a user error 🙂 I get it, I do that professionally as a sw eng as well, but ...
obtuse crystal
Feel free to submit a feature request
But IMO the point of automation software is...automation. Having it conform to your expected/desired behavior is a lot of what it does
elder ivyBOT
crimson abyss
There's already one, I've upvoted it, and was wondering if people had work-arounds, because this felt fairly basic. Guess not 🙂 Thanks!
edgy wraith
So I've found that scene.create snapshots don't persist across restarts of HA, a...
wait.. what? I had no idea. I suppose that could explain some of the unexpected results on some of my automations! thanks for letting me know. Also, where is the existing WTH request to fix change this? I'd like to go upvote it myself!