Happy to hear that matey. I died on that hill trying to achieve the same thing. Either way I simply don't use any assistance so no need to go for tradeoffs

It definitely has a learning curve but as someone who is much more hands on with very little programming experience, I actually found it pretty intuitive. And frankly for the things that aren't super intuitive, there's a community support thread for basically anything you could want to do.

Never thought I would have one, but homeassistant made it easy enough for me to program my own wall mounted control panel, that it just made sense.

Happy to hear that matey. I died on that hill trying to achieve the same thing. Either way I simply don't use any assistance so no need to go for tradeoffs