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As the innovation of smart devices and internet-of-things (IoT), smart homes have become prevalent. People tend to transform residences into smart homes by customizing off-the-shelf smart home platforms, instead of creating IoT systems from scratch. Among the alternatives, Home Assistant (HA) is one of the most popular platforms. It allows end-users (i.e., home residents) to smartify homes by (S1) integrating selected devices into the system, and (S2) creating YAML files to control those devices. Unfortunately, due to the diversity of devices and complexity of automatic configurations, many users have difficulty correctly creating YAML files. Consequently, their smart homes may not work as expected, causing frustration and concern in users. This paper presents a novel study on issues of YAML-based automation configuration in smart homes (issues related to S2). We mined the online forum Home Assistant Community for discussion threads related to automation configuration. By manually inspecting 190 threads, we revealed 3 categories of concerns: implementation, optimization, and debugging. Under each category, we classified discussions based on the issue locations and technical concept

Author

Anik, Sheik Murad Hassan; Gao, Xinghua; Zhong, Hao; Wang, Xiaoyin; Meng, Na

Published

2024

Language

EN