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Phil Hawthorne

Phil Hawthorne

Footballer

Oct 3, 2026

23:21
And so it almost got too smart on that end.
23:25
Did you, have you had a similar experience? Yeah, like, so I've been experimenting with some automations, right? Like, I wanted it, I was like, you know what, I want to close some blinds when some calendar events are triggered, right? Like, so for privacy, we've got some, as we mentioned before in the pre-show, I'm doing some construction here at the moment.
23:43
You know what, I'm like, just close the shades when I've got a calendar event that there's construction happening, right? So then my kids could be watching TV and they're not, you know, staring out at builders doing the construction.
23:53
And I was like, that's cool.
23:54
I've already got the automations to close those blinds.
23:56
Let's just tell Hermes, go ahead and add this condition, right? And Hermes just butchered the whole thing.
24:04
It completely rewrote the automations.

19 MINS LATER

43:28
Yes,
21:13
Like, if you could control it, what would be one or two things you'd still like to see that, that aren't there right now?
21:22
I would love...
21:24
The, the automation UI has had so much love to it, um, and I, I think there are some changes in 2026.10 around traces that I'm hoping will address what I want.
21:33
But the tracing of when something happened, uh, how it happened, why it happened, has always been a bit hit and miss.
21:41
Like, the data's there, I just don't think it's presented in the right way, and I've, I think I read somewhere in the shown, in the release notes that they have addressed that, 'cause there were some big changes in 2026.9 around the history of things.
21:53
You know, like, person walks into a room, now this automation is triggered, now the light turned on.
21:58
Um, I'm hoping that comes to the automation traces.

31 MINS LATER

53:01
Yeah, go ahead.
21:13
Like, if you could control it, what would be one or two things you'd still like to see that, that aren't there right now?
21:22
I would love...
21:24
The, the automation UI has had so much love to it.
21:27
Um, and I, I, I think there are some changes in 2026.10 around traces that I'm hoping will address what I want.
21:33
But the tracing of when something happened, uh, how it happened, why it happened, has always been a bit hit and miss.
21:41
Like, the data's there, I just don't think it's presented in the right way.
21:44
And I, I've, I think I read somewhere in the shown, in the release notes that they have addressed that, 'cause there were some big changes in 2026.9 around the history of things.

31 MINS LATER

53:01
Yeah, go ahead.

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