Great news!
Enjoy all the wonderful moments this new adventure will bring you.
Well done
Congratulations! Take the time to enjoy it⊠it goes by too fastâŠ
Wow, what wonderful news! Congratulations. In my case, as part of my transition from HA to Gladys, Iâm trying to replicate the nightlight mode I have for my child in Gladys, and I can confirm that smart home dads are better than regular dads!
For my part, virtual thermostats and even extended heating management to prioritize certain areas without exceeding the maximum power provided, in the same way that GitHub - jmcollin78/versatile_thermostat: A full featured Thermostat for Home Assistant: presets, window, motion, presence and overpowering management · GitHub does, would be fantastic and I think that would add a big asset to Gladys. +1 for thermostats then!
What about the ongoing requests that are in « in-progress »?
Hello @pierre-gilles,
Congratulations to you. And of course, congratulations to the mom too, because letâs not forget that she does most of the work.
Warning: a new life begins!!! All happiness but, of course, a lot of worries (especially for the first one) but the joys still outweigh the fears. When I had my first child (itâs been quite a few years now), home automation didnât exist (at least I wasnât interested in it) but I had invested in an automatic rocking cradle. No doubt that now, the process can be greatly improved (start the rocking at the first cry). I think that being a dad will give you ideas for home automation projects.
For the rest, I think that everything that will facilitate the work of those who develop external integrations should be the priority. Then, I would see an improvement aimed at giving everyone the possibility to manage, more finely, their dashboards. It may seem anecdotal to prioritize the visual aspect, but I find it important to have beautiful dashboards: it makes you want to use them more.
Best wishes for your new life with the arrival of the smurf!!!
Hi Pierre-Gilles,
Already: congratulations 
Great news, enjoy these first months, they are magical.
On the roadmap, I find the order just right and I wouldnât change anything. Priority 1 is the one with the best leverage effect: as long as an external integration cannot display its own widgets or expose scene actions and triggers, we are stuck.
I started a sort of alarm revamp here, but that can wait for your return in 2027.
And on the 2027 goal: being able to live off Gladys is also what secures the project in the long term for all of us. I will switch from HA to Gladys by the end of October (the comeback) and I will be very happy to support this project again 
Cyril
Hi Pierre-Gilles,
Thatâs fantastic news! I wish you both so much happiness and love, and the fact that you get to enjoy it for such a long time (I still remember my 11 days of paternity leave) is truly amazing 
Regarding priorities, I get the feeling thereâs a consensus for the thermostat, but for my part, I would have loved to see the multimedia player arrive, as I think it could be useful for several services and integrations already in place: Airplay, Android TV remote, Subsonic, Apple TV, Denon/Marantz, Google Cast, Immich SLideshow, LG Web OS, Plex, Samsung Smart TV, Sonos, Spotify.
Thatâs quite a list that could benefit from it. And if this is combined with the ability to have widgets associated with external integrations, then I think itâs a winning combo.
See you soon for an intensive final stretch on the project!!
Thank you all for your messages 
We canât wait!
On the thermostat
A quick important reminder: the feature has already been developed by @Will_71 
here
Whatâs missing today isnât development, itâs testers and feedback on the PR. So far, thereâs only been one tester in a month, which explains the current prioritization.
So if the thermostat interests you, now is the time to act: go test it and give Will your feedback on his work! 
If the tests are done, the result is great, and it suits a good majority of users, all Iâll have left to do is validate it and click on « Merge ». Under these conditions, it can definitely move up in my priority list
On my time before the end of the year
If the delivery happens at the beginning of November, I only have 17 working days left. And out of these 17 days, some will inevitably go to administration, support, and infrastructure, so thereâs less left for pure development.
Thatâs why I want to focus this time on what has a multiplier effect, and today itâs the work on external integrations that has this effect: each door opened allows the entire community to build on it, even during my absence.
Yes, of course, in 2027!
Here Iâm only talking about my last working days before my paternity leave.
@Chris75 For this last sprint before my paternity leave, I prioritize what has a multiplier effect, and for me, those are the external integrations
The goal is simple: for the project to move forward without me, and for me to no longer be the bottleneck.
If I manage to get through my list (letâs be honest, the chances are slim), I will of course take up these topics before my departure.
Otherwise, donât worry: all ongoing topics will be picked up again upon my return. Nothing is abandoned, itâs just a matter of order!
Congratulations to you and your partner!
They talk about change with a newborn, so yes, it changes, but a lot 
Enjoy it, it goes fast!
No kidding, it really goes too fast. For me, it feels like it was just yesterday, and my son is already 17 years old.
Congratulations to the future parents. Itâs the discovery of the reversal of the scale of priorities.
I take this opportunity to say that V5 is great. Quite a boost in a short time.
Congratulations to the future parents, and above all, lots of happiness, children grow up so fast, enjoy all these special moments. Warm regards
Hi @pierre-gilles,
Congratulations to the future parents, I wish you all the happiness in the world as a family!
For the priorities, I completely agree with @cicoub13âs remark:
This is clearly a structuring point for external integrations.
But I must also admit that the thermostat is tempting for me: it would allow me to remove about ten scenes that I always struggle to remember the overall logic and how I built them.
Thanks for your messages!
The first development is ready to be tested. Iâm open to your feedback, especially from integration developers, by Monday so that we can deploy this feature as soon as possible.
Weâre discussing it in this topic:
The second development is ready to be tested 
Also taking feedback from integration developers!
We discuss it in this topic:
Hi Pierre-Gilles,
How will future PRs be validated that you currently validate?
Congratulations and best of luck
I will be a grandpa for the second time at the end of the year, and with my wife, we have 6 children and 5 grandchildren
I especially think we should ask for the instruction manual because these children always arrive without one!
(Otherwise, I donât really know how to help the community as a novice user)
Very good question
First, thatâs exactly the purpose of the work I want to do in this last sprint: to minimize the things that go through the core.
With external integrations (integrations, widgets, scene triggers and actions, energy contracts, etc.), the community can create and evolve entire features without a single line of code passing through my hands. No PR to merge, no release to wait for. In this model, the project moves forward without me.
Then, thereâs the real question: core fixes during my absence.
There, I donât have an answer yet. We could imagine that I delegate the rights to a trusted maintainer, but I donât know yet what form that would take, or who could take on that role.
Itâs a big responsibility: you have to know the code, understand the philosophy of the project, know what we accept or not, and assume the consequences of a merge. Gladys is running today in many usersâ homes, including beginners and starter kit customers. A regression is a home that no longer responds, without necessarily someone on the other end capable of diagnosing the problem.
This is a topic we can explore in the meantime, if you have ideas on how to organize it, or if you want to get involved, Iâm all for it!
Me, Iâm not at all at the right level .
But a word to enthusiasts, or rather to the pro 
,
Here Iâm preaching to the choir, but making a request for a function that doesnât appear in Gladys, even though it does appear in Zigbee2mqtt for example, does that fall under core fixes?
In any case, enjoy all these future parental moments.
Indeed, we need to find a solution because if a problem occurs and causes Gladys to be stuck for 2 months, that would not be « acceptable » and very bad for new users âŠ
But, during these 2 months of paternity leave, you wonât be available at all to intervene in an emergency?