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Feature Backlog Ideas

This backlog captures practical enhancements that could be added to the integration.

High Impact

  1. Connection quality metrics

    • Expose SSH connect latency and command roundtrip time sensors.
    • Useful to detect network degradation before hard outages.

  2. Filesystem coverage

    • Track multiple mount points (for example /, /var, /home, /data) instead of only root.
    • Include per-mount used/available GiB plus utilization percent.

  3. Power and energy metrics

    • Add optional sensors for RAPL/energy counters where supported.
    • Enable energy dashboards and anomaly alerts for servers with changing power draw.

  4. Process-level hotspot detection

    • Optional top-N process sensor attributes (CPU and memory consumers).
    • Speeds up troubleshooting when system load spikes.

Reliability and UX

  1. Adaptive polling/backoff

    • Automatically increase polling interval after repeated connection errors.
    • Return to normal interval after successful reconnects.

  2. Per-host command timeout configuration

    • Add options for SSH connect timeout and remote command timeout.
    • Prevent one slow host from stalling collector cycles.

  3. Service call result entities/events

    • Create dedicated event payload schema and optional last-run status sensors for package update/reboot commands.
    • Easier to build robust notifications in Home Assistant.

  4. Entity categories and diagnostics metadata

    • Mark config/informational entities with suitable Home Assistant categories.
    • Improves dashboard organization and reduces clutter in default views.

  5. Richer diagnostics export

    • Include sanitized timing, command failures, and capability detection in diagnostics output.
    • Makes bug reports easier for maintainers to triage.

Security and Governance

  1. Safer command policy

    • Add optional allowlist for run_command service.
    • Reduces accidental execution of unsafe commands.

  2. Least-privilege setup helper

    • Provide a guided sudoers template generator in docs/scripts.
    • Makes secure onboarding faster and less error-prone.

  3. Credential health checks

    • Warn when password auth is used or key permissions are weak.
    • Encourage secure defaults directly in config flow.

Nice-to-Have

  1. Template dashboard blueprint

    • Ship reusable Lovelace dashboard templates for single and multi-host deployments.

  2. Historical trend helper sensors

    • Expose short-term rolling averages (for example 5-minute CPU/memory) to smooth noisy metrics.

  3. Host grouping labels

    • Add host tags (prod/stage/lab) as attributes to simplify area-based dashboards and automations.

  4. Update channels and release notification sensor

    • Optional sensor comparing installed integration version vs latest published release.

Suggested Implementation Order

  1. Connection quality metrics + timeout controls.
  2. Multi-mount filesystem metrics.
  3. Security controls around remote command execution.
  4. Process hotspot and energy metrics.