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Home Assistant 2023.9: New climate entity dialogs, lots of tile features, and template sensors from the UI!
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Yeah, an oold complaint with HA. But it doesn't feel like they have any intention of making the changes for this kind of a thing. I wouldn't hold your breath on them making this happen, ever.
I generally use HA differently, it coordinates and automates my homes devices. But I try to keep interactions with it limited to physical buttons in the meat space
The problem with buttons is that they're expensive (relatively speaking) and ruin the advantages of having everything in a single place like the HA app.
I am not giving access to "everything" to everyone in the house: I already managed to accidentally turn off the 3D printer mid print instead of a light, shouldn't expect others to be better than me.
For my printer I use a Sonoff S31 flashed with tasmota. I then set it so it can't be turned off remotely but can be turned on. That way I get the benefit of being able to remote start a print but not being able to accidentally turn it off.
I like your solution, quite clever! But in my instance I actually want it to turn off once the print is over. I don't remember the details but I think it's set up so it will turn off after the hot end has cooled down for a few minutes, it's controlled by a plug-in for Octoprint.