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Floors and plans ​

Each plan is one picture: usually a floor of your home, or a free view (garden, a single room, a network overview). One card can show several floors.

Plan types ​

This plan isLevelDevices offered
A Home Assistant floorFollows the floor's level in HADevices whose area is on that floor
A floor, by level numberThe number you chooseAll devices
Not a floor (a view)–All devices; a device can also be on other plans

A device can be on one floor plan at a time. If you place it on another floor, Move to this floor moves it. Views allow duplicates.

A home with several floors ​

  1. One plan per floor. In the Floorplan Editor, + New plan for each floor and pick its Home Assistant floor under This plan is. The floor tabs are sorted by level.
  2. Rooms on floors in Home Assistant (optional but helpful): with your areas assigned to floors (Settings → Areas, labels & zones), each plan offers only the devices of its floor and Auto-place works per floor. Without it, every plan offers all devices.
  3. Place devices on each floor. A device placed on the ground floor shows On Ground floor in the other floors' lists; Devices from all floors shows them, Move to this floor moves one.
  4. One card for all floors. At the top of the card editor, the floor tabs 1 · 2 · +: add a tab per floor and choose its plan. On the card, the floor button under Layers switches floors (or swipe up / down).

A card with two floors and the floor rail

  1. Switch from outside (optional): floor: in device_floorplan.show_overlay, or ?floor=1 in a link. See Switch the overlay from other cards.

Device settings in the card (icon, name, tap, overlays) belong to the device and apply on every floor.

The floor menu ​

The ⋮ inside a floor tab (always visible on the selected tab, on hover for the others):

The floor menu

  • Floor settings: name, what the plan is, image type, image, and the guide.
  • Rename.
  • Replace image: a new picture keeps all positions (they are stored as percentages of the image).
  • Export…: CSV, JSON backup or PNG. See Export and import.
  • Move left / right: for views. Floors are ordered by level.
  • Delete…: removes the plan, its image and its positions, plus its device and entities in Home Assistant. Your devices themselves are not touched.

A small dot on a tab means that floor has new devices waiting.

The app menu ​

The ⋮ on the far right of the header: Show intro, Show/Hide step-by-step guide (also hides the ⓘ tips), and Choose devices again… (reopens What should go on your plan?).

Device Floorplan for Home Assistant