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sleevezipper / hass-workstation-service

Provide useful sensors and services from your workstation to Home Assistant.
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Feature Request: Current User #14

Closed grizzlyjere closed 3 years ago

grizzlyjere commented 3 years ago

You can get current user via WMI (really nice sensor type, BTW), but perhaps might be helpful to have the current user exposed as an out-of-the-box sensor? As an alternative, maybe the docs could have a place to collect a useful list of queries?

For those wanting to use WMI, my query is: SELECT username FROM Win32_ComputerSystem

sleevezipper commented 3 years ago

Hey thank you! And thanks for sharing.

I think it would be nice to have many out-of-the-box sensors but the current UI is not really up for that. I'll think about it some more.

grizzlyjere commented 3 years ago

I wonder about automatically publishing all sensors types? Then the UI could show a grid of all included sensors with the option to enable/disable a sensor and change the update time? It could auto-generate a name and default all to enabled, so all a new user has to do is enter the MQTT broker info to get started.

Then perhaps a separate "advanced" tab where a user can manage custom WMI sensors (similar to how the current UI works with the grid/add dialog)?

sleevezipper commented 3 years ago

Hi @grizzlyjere,

I added your query to the readme for now with instructions so other users can add theirs too.