I Built My Home Assistant Floor Plan with HAFloorplan — Here’s What Worked and What Didn’t

I had wanted a floor-plan dashboard, but I did not know how to start

Before HAFloorplan, I was not using any Home Assistant floor-plan solution. The main reason was simple: I did not have an easy way to create an actual floor plan and integrate it with Home Assistant.

That was the biggest barrier for me. The idea of a floor-plan dashboard was appealing, but getting from an idea to a usable dashboard felt like too much work.

The short demo was enough to get me started

After watching the short demo on the landing page, drawing rooms felt pretty intuitive. Once I understood the basic interaction, I was able to recreate my whole floor relatively quickly.

For ease of use, I would give the current experience a B.

Building the floor plan was the part that mattered most

The thing that normally takes the most effort is creating an actual floor plan and then integrating it with Home Assistant. HAFloorplan gave me one place to draw the rooms and then add the Home Assistant entities I wanted to use.

Adding HA entities was easy. I did not have trouble mapping the devices I wanted into the project.

The generated YAML worked without an issue

The strongest part of the experience was the handoff to Home Assistant. The generated YAML worked without an issue.

I would give the Home Assistant side of the experience a B. I was able to create the floor plan, add the entities, generate the configuration, and get the result into Home Assistant.

The final result still feels too raw

I would currently give the actual result a C. It works, but visually the finished floor plan still feels too raw.

The three improvements that would make the biggest difference for me are:

• A rectangle drawing tool. Most of the rooms I need are rectangular, so drawing a rectangle directly would make room creation faster and more precise.
• Snap rooms together while dragging. Neighboring rooms should line up naturally instead of requiring small manual adjustments.
• Display the room name on the floor plan. The finished Home Assistant view should make it immediately clear which room is which.

If rectangle drawing, room snapping, and room labels were added, I would raise my result score from a C to a B.

Who I would recommend it to

I would recommend HAFloorplan to Home Assistant users who want to build a floor plan but do not know how to start.

I would also encourage early users to give feedback. The core workflow already works, and feedback on the drawing and finished presentation can help improve the product.