Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Home automation
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Home automation, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Home automation is too hard to set up and too brittle to manage day to day2025-05-05
- Too many scenes to choose from; doing what they want takes too much effort2022-05-30
- Lights behave randomly and frustratingly when automations fire out of order or conflict with manual adjustments2020-05-03
- Home automation products have terrible UX and are too high maintenance2019-05-10
- Away mode is hard to turn off, so cat-feeding visitors get stuck2017-10-12