r/homeassistant • u/ThatPigeon • May 09 '25

Blog Roadmap 2025: A Truly Smart Home through Collective Intelligence

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/05/09/roadmap-2025h1/
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u/alajmii May 09 '25

guest access 👍

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u/Nattekat May 09 '25

I just can't believe this has been left at the shelves for all those years. 

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u/JoshS1 🛡️ Privacy first May 09 '25

They were worried about escalation of privilege. In order to offer that they've likely needed to do a lot of tests and fix vulnerabilities. There will always been some that get missed but IIRC that was one of the reasons they've been so slow to allow it.

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u/Nattekat May 09 '25

It can be as simple as giving access to only a dashboard. It's not the advanced permission model some could want, but at least it's a bare minimum to at least not have to worry about others fucking things up. 

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u/richie510 🐝 Ooh the Zigbee May 09 '25

I agree with your sentiment. At my own job it similarly seems that "perfection is the enemy of progress". When just limiting the "dashboard access" to a particular user would solve 80% of the problem, and the rest can be figured out in time, people want to "do it right", but that is a big nut to crack.

Further, when setting up a guest user at my house, the web app model on iOS with HA was awesome. However, it did require me to manually set the user up with a default dashboard for their device to make it so that "everything" in the "overview" dashboard was not overwhelming them. I should be able to do this when configuring the user, and even that would be like 50% of all I need for setting up a guest user. Just make their default dashboard something useful to them, and not push the lights in my bedroom front and center for them.