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by linker3000 2601 days ago
I really want to love HA, but I find doing things in Node-Red so much quicker and easy to comprehend due to its visual nature. After a gap of about a year, I installed HA again a few weeks back and tried to setup geofencing using first bluetooth and then third party location services, but gave up due to the inconsistent determination of whether I was home or not. Using Node-red and a couple of tutorials I had things working very quickly. YMMV.
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Yes, I find HA a bit clunky to use as well. Mostly because the scripting is quite tedious and relies on templating yaml files.

I'll have to give Node-RED a go once I find some spare time to tinker.