[apexalpha]

I really wish Home Assistant had some default good dashboards. I have HA for a few years now and the Energy dashboard they made is by far the most polished one I have. The rest are basically just buttons I randomly put into it.

Native floorplan would be great, too.

HA is fantastic, but it has a steep learning curve on the frontend part.

[greggsy]

The 3D floor plan component is based on SweetHome3D, and requires the dolls house to be create offline and uploaded, but there’s discussion afoot to have the JS version of the editor baked directly into the console so watch this space.

As for default dashboards, I think the only real way to do this properly would be to create a wizard to help get things off the from ground.

It really does need a fair understanding of (or at least the existence of) entities, devices, HACS, and the developer tools pane. And that’s just the foundational stuff you need to know about before you can even consider tinkering with platforms and entities in yaml files.

Some jargon-free steps like ‘Select all of your outlets’ > ‘Select the properties you want to display’ etc.

A ChatGPT configurator would be interesting, similar to the one in Pirtainer (which I admin I’ve never used).

[apexalpha]

A wizard would help, I think. But what's most important for me is that I don't want to setup home assistant. I want home assistant, I want the end result, but I don't want to have to build it brick by brick. I just don't have the time for that (anymore).

I also think a floorplan where you can click a room and see the lights and everything is much more intuitive than a website.

But also I think many things can just be assumed. Everyone has lights, for example. So why not have this be a native solution in stead of having to set it up manually.

Setting up the Energy dashboard, including all the graphs, data and history etc... took less time and effort than it would take to automate a single light bulb.

[greggsy]

My nirvana is to be able to create a dollhouse using the LiDAR Scanner on my phone, and simply tap where device is. No modelling, just let me tap somewhere in a digital twin.