Very creative and innovative feature for Home Assistant demonstrated in conference today- GAME CHANGER
Re: WHO LIKES "BLUEPRINT" - HA Conference Summary
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 3:20 pm
by rik94566
Here is a summary of many of the new features and way HA will function going forward now.
So many new things to play with!
Re: WHO LIKES "BLUEPRINT"
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:52 pm
by LEDG
Great summary vid, thanks for sharing. Blueprints look really interesting. Almost regret choosing node red for new videos.
Re: WHO LIKES "BLUEPRINT"
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:10 pm
by rik94566
Your work will still be very helpful and valuable to all of us.
It looks to me, that Node Red can be moved over to BLUEPRINTS - I have seen some chat about this functionality. Time will tell I'm sure.
This link should save you some time with BLUEPRINTS:
Re: WHO LIKES "BLUEPRINT"
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2020 6:23 am
by warmachine
I will definitely be using a combination of blueprint/automations and node red. An example would be I use an automation to trigger a boolean at a input_datetime which in HA works perfectly on time. In node red there is no great way to do this. Then NodeRed would take that boolean trigger and activate a list of entities which I can visually see and delete lines if I choose note to use them. would think most people would get by with just the blueprints. If I only used a few entities with each automation I would probably just stick with blueprint automations but, NodeRed seems to be better for adding and removing entities when needed out of huge flows.
Overall I like both and look forward to seeing some really nice blueprints coming out in the future. I believe it should make HA more user friendly. I had a hard time when I started 4 or 5 months ago. I knew nothing about coding. Now I'm comfortable writing yaml and I'm getting better at json.
P.S. I love the new input datetime in the automations! I hated writing input_datetime templates.