Home Assistant - am I missing something?

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I decided to spin up Home Assistant on a VM on my server yesterday, and so far I'm not having much luck getting to to much that is actually useful.

I'm wondering if it's me doing something wrong, but I can't see what that would be.

I've signed up for the free trial of the cloud services which all seems to have gone fine, and I have a couple of integrations working (Roomba, printer ink levels, Sonos and a couple of others) but mostly everything else I've tried just doesn't want to play ball

  • Apple TV - won't pair - I press the pair button in HA but the ATV doesn't respond with a pairing code

  • Ring doorbell / cameras - these are found but won't display a live feed

  • Ring alarm - not recognised at all

  • Netatmo thermostat - widget displays but doesn't sync correctly with thermostat and if I try to adjust temp it sets the target temp to 137 degrees C

  • Hue lights - having issues but this one might be my hub not HA

I was really hoping I could set up automations to, say, turn off my TV, turn off the lights, arm my house alarm - all with one press of a button but it looks like currently this isn't going to happen.

Is it just me? Am I doing something wrong perhaps? Maybe I'm missing something obvious but it just seems like the integrations with these devices just isn't quite there? I'd really be interested in other people's experiences and whether they were able to solve these issues (if indeed they had them at all).

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Looks like an user error to me. Influx is for long-term storage of history and data, you don't need it for automation at all.

Looks like this is not up to you to decide.

If you would have read my comment, you would have noticed, that I intend to use Influx as a long term DB and use HA as automation around that. BTW: The thinking you're showing here is exactly what I'm criticizing. You think that DBs and automation have no connection, so you decide, that I am the idiot for even trying. This is literally what I've described above.

Also, I wrote quite a paragraph about the fact that I already accepted the idea to ditch the direct Influx integration.

So you use the free thing wrong, don't RTFM, vent on internet and then vent some more when corrected? What's your end game?

Nobody corrected me at all. It's just "yeah because u stoopid".

I did read the manual. I did search for solutions and tried different approaches. And I documented that above. You seem to ignore that.

Why do I vent here? Because that's the question of the fucking post! Read the post! That's exactly the question.

Why do you have to be so stubborn? Can't your accept, that maybe, just maybe, HA isn't directly sent from God? Is HA your religion? Does that religion prescribe only skimming comments and just reacting on keywords to rile yourself up?

Seriously, this pointless, self-righteous arrogance is the reason so many people hate "nerds". This entire thread here is basically the "well ackshually" meme in text form. Reflect a bit in what you're doing here.