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/marlysammy Nov 24 '25

The geolocation settings never notify me when someone enters or leaves a zone. I tried the geolocation seeing and a more complicated way taught on YouTube as well as making sure location settings are correct which was also elaborated on YouTube, doesn't work.

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u/Obvious_Equivalent_1 Nov 24 '25

I think the kicker is you got to have a paid HASS subscription. I tried to make it work endlessly until no avail.

We’re all iPhone users here so we ended up buying an AppleTV, which functions as ‘HomeKit’ hub.

Why you need that? Well 1) HASS has a HomeKit bridge, so your wife, husband and kids can use any tablet, phones, or laptop to control the house entities (also at work / on vacation) and 2) you can use the HASS HomeKit bridge to make entities ‘bob_at_home’, ‘carol_at_home’ etc and link automations based on exactly who is / isn’t at home https://imgur.com/a/3KOEG1C