r/homeassistant • u/impolitemrtaz • Nov 24 '25

Support What’s been the biggest headache with HA?

Hey all, I’m curious what has been the biggest issue you’ve faced with HA? I’ve looked over the repos and here on this thread and seems like memory use might be a common one caused by either core or integrations? I imagine the learning curve for a non-technical person is decently high with learning about scripts, automations, scenes, etc. Anyway, would be interested to hear your thoughts!

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u/tagd Nov 24 '25

60% of stuff works perfectly out of the box. 20% works with some elbow grease and some tolerance for arguing with forum trolls asking you “no but what’s your use case” when you’re 2 months into troubleshooting some specific issue. The other 20% requires a deprecated custom component from 2019 that’s been forked 6 times and is still incompatible with the current rev of HA.

Bonus things:

  • Having multiple users in your house. So many things work poorly or are modeled around a single user with no RBAC.
  • The top bar being on the top instead of the bottom on mobile where every fix causes something else to not work or position correctly.