Bulding a home assistant custom component part 1.
Add floor plan to home assistant.
Out of the box the home assistant front end provides a great way of viewing and interacting with your entities.
These steps have been taken in the image below.
Thanks to pkozul for creating such wonderful program github.
This project builds on top of that allowing you to extend the user interface by adding your own visuals.
My home assistant floorplan 2 minute read during the past 6 months i ve really gained an interest in home automation.
While browsing the r homeassistant subreddit i discovered the ability to utilize the new lovelace ui to create an interactive 2d floorplan.
After using the assistant to create your initial structure you can add individual rooms and modify your existing house.
The assistant will prompt you to enter the number of floors you want the type of rooms you want including a garage and it will specify these by floor.
To get started we ll go over the idea of the component we will be building the project structure a.
To link an object in the floorplan file to home assistant you first set its object id to the name of the entity in home assistant.
We have covered the common types of additions including garages with apartments first floor expansions and second story expansions with new shed dormers even if you are just looking for a new porch to add country charm and value to your house we have that too.
These rooms can also be arranged to form a complete house if you are.
Also add a text string that we will be using for showing the temperature.
Floorplan for home assistant.
I discovered home assistant and have a nearly endless list of projects to work on.