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title: The month of 'What the Heck?! (2020)'
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description: "Ever felt that 'What the heck Home Assistant?!' moment? This month, we would like to learn about your 'what the heck?!' moments..."
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date: 2020-08-18 00:00:00
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date_formatted: "August 18, 2020"
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author: Franck Nijhof
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author_twitter: frenck
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categories: Announcements
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og_image: /images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png
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---
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<a href='https://community.home-assistant.io/c/what-the-heck/52'><img src='/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png' style='border: 0;box-shadow: none;'></a>
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Welcome to the month of “What the heck?!”
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Home Assistant is now almost around for 7 years! During that time, it has grown
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into a big project, beloved by many of you. However, as the project grew, some
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things might not have turned out the way it should be, are missing or maybe even
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started annoying you. That is what this month is about.
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We realize reporting bugs on our [GitHub][github-issues] might be a steep hill.
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You’ll need a GitHub account, report an issue following the issue templates
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using Markdown and the report itself needs to be written in a way a developer
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can work with it. Furthermore, we use our issue tracker for tracking actual
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issues and bugs; not small feature requests or annoyances.
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While this is a common and reasonable process to collect, track and process
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bugs, our issue tracking process might not be the ideal way to learn about
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annoyances or small tweaks and improvements that can make us all enjoy
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Home Assistant even more.
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In May, of this year, the Ruby on Rails project had a [similar month][rorwtf],
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which we have enjoyed watching. Now, we are going to do something similar.
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Today, we have opened up a [Community Forum category][forum] as a safe, lower
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barrier place to tell about your Home Assistant “What the heck?!” moments,
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and more importantly, discuss and vote on topics your fellow users have
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brought up.
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Frenck recently tried something similar for Home Assistant on Twitter,
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by asking:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Enlighten me 💡<br><br>The whole community would celebrate and be shedding happy tears of joy, if this tiny little thing was added to <a href="https://twitter.com/home_assistant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@home_assistant</a>...</p>— Franck Nijhof (@Frenck) <a href="https://twitter.com/Frenck/status/1285592609772244993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a>
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</blockquote>
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The responses to that question were amazing! Full of inspiration, recognition of
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stuff that annoyed us as well, but also some really really good suggestions.
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And this is not just about new tiny little things, examples may include:
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- I’d love to see some Home Assistant sensors with things like: The total
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automations, triggers processed this hour, the total number of integrations,
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entities, number of events fired.
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- I want to be able to upload a backup on the frontend on the first install.
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- Maybe you are annoyed by some logs that you need to refresh and scroll to see
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updates?
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- You have a lot of template entities that all do the same thing and maybe could
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be handled by Home Assistant automatically.
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- Always need a workaround to automate something the way you like and really
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wished Home Assistant provided a better trigger/condition for it?
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These are the things we are looking for, the things we should share this month.
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We are really looking forward to all the stuff that will be brought up!
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This will be interesting!
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**[Join us on the forums!][forum]**
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<p class='img'>
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<img src='/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/jackie-chan-what-the-heck.jpg' alt='Image of a person expressing a what the heck moment'></a>
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So, when does Home Assistant trigger this moment for you?
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</p>
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## FAQ
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- **_“I have multiple things! Should I put all my stuff in a single topic?!”_**
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No, please create multiple, smaller topics. Each topic can be voted on,
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picked up and resolved. Having multiple things stacked in a single forum
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topic, makes resolving, discussing and voting on them hard. There is no
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limitation on how many things one can suggest this month.
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- **_"Is everything reported going to be fixed/addressed?"_**
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There is no guarantee that will happen. The goal is to lower the barrier to
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reporting things for one month. Home Assistant still relies on contributors
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to address or improve the project. However, we do think collecting feedback
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this way can tremendously help with the upcoming
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[Hacktoberfest][hacktoberfest].
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- **_"I really want this new integration to be implemented, so I can use my
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devices. Is this the right place for it?"_**
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No, this event is not for requesting new device or services integrations.
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Please use the [“Feature Requests”][feature-requests] forum category instead.
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- **_"I’ve found a bug and am comfortable with GitHub. Where should I report my
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issue now?"_**
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If you are comfortable with using GitHub, please, by all means, [file an issue
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report on GitHub][github-issues].
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[rorwtf]: https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2020/5/7/A-May-of-WTFs/
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[forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/what-the-heck/52
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[github-issues]: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues
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[feature-requests]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/feature-requests/13
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[hacktoberfest]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
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