💡⭐ Calling All Home Assistant Users: Quick Survey to Improve Energy Management

[waxen hearth]

Hi everyone!
We’re students from Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany working on a research project together with the Open Home Foundation. We’re exploring how people use Home Assistant for energy management, and we would really appreciate your help.
Your experiences, habits, and challenges will give us valuable insight into what real users need, and will help support future improvements for the Home Assistant community.
If you have a few minutes, we’d be grateful if you could take our short survey.
Thank you so much for your time! 💙✨

👉 Survey link: https://forms.gle/GVhK5dX31PHcJwAF6

[gleaming kestrel]

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Hi, I started completing the form, but I think the home type choices are quite limited. Why is detached house one of the options, but not attached house?

And why do I have to enter the size in square feet. It would have been nice if at least an approximate size in square meters is mentioned as well. I got demotivated to continue as I'm apparently expected to convert that myself (I have no clue what the size of my house in square feet is).

[waxen hearth]

Hi, hope you're doing well.

1. As per our research, while searching for different kind of houses, we came across several ones, including semi- detached and detached houses, and an attached house in itself, isn't mentioned anywhere. And one could assume that an attached house is just a normal house.

2. You can see that the options are in square meters.

Hopefully we resolved your queries.

[gleaming kestrel]

1. Currently I can only select apartment, dormitory and detached house. I can't select normal house. This way you'll get a multitude of other answers. Especially since you are targeting a international group of people whose native language will not be English in many cases
2. That's exactly my point. The biggest part of the world doesn't have a clue what size their house is in square feet. Me included. I'd like to have options in square meters

[fickle python]

1. Yeah, the options are kinda weird for this one.
2. I’m confused on the issue here. You keep asking for sq meters and it is in sq meters. (I had to convert mine from sq feet to meters. ) unless they just changed it after your response.

[gleaming kestrel]

You're completely right on number 2, don't know what happened in my head there 😅
Sorry about that!

[lilac zinc]

🤣🤣🤣 @gleaming kestrel don’t scare the students 🤣🤣🤣

[gleaming kestrel]

Yeah. I really had a brain disconnect. I kept reading square feet

[lilac zinc]

Btw @waxen hearth I decided to participate because I did not have to time to check the pre research material you shared before. Feel free to ignore my results if needed but they are genuine;)