Paulus Schoutsen

There are different types of integrations in Home Assistant. There are integrations that get their data directly from devices and services and publish that to Home Assistant. Then there are...

This change means that `sensor` is no longer the place for sensor values to go, it could now also be `plant`. That seems confusing. The current plant integration does not...

This could be a new integration similar to how we have `media_extractor`. The `media_extractor` integration works by sending url of online media (ie a Youtube URL) and it will then...

Yeah, this sounds good. We can split the folders in `.config` and `.storage`. This will be a pain for rollbacks, so preferably we merge all changes within 1 release cycle....

Wow wait a second, we should never share `.storage`. It's the part of the config that is secret and your data. If you want to separate state and config a...

> a lot of people do want that and I think their voices should be heard A lot of people also wanted us to keep supporting Python 2. It's an...

Things are easy if you design a new system, but we'll need to move everything to a new folder. But where would that folder be! It can't be the config...

But to what end? If it is not to completely separate config and state there is no purpose.

I think that this part of my quote is a pretty solid solution: > We need to fetch that data via an API. The state machine should store the current...

The big problem with not recording everything is that we get an incomplete history. Incomplete history will make machine learning on the data less effective. Machine learning will go wrong...