[APP][Pro] HomeDeck – your whole home on one screen, in 3D and as a live floor plan (test version)

[WNijhof]

Nederlandse versie: HomeDeck

Hi everyone,

Floor Plan Dashboard is now called HomeDeck, and it has grown into much more than a floor plan. HomeDeck puts your whole home on one screen: your house in 3D with its energy, and every storey as a live floor plan.

This is still a test version. Not everything has been tried on many different Homeys yet, so all feedback is more than welcome: what works, what is odd and what you miss.

You can look around without installing anything, in the demo with a sample home: Huis (the editor is under the pencil).

Already using Floor Plan Dashboard? It is the same app, so your plans stay. Please read the update post.

What it does

• Your house from outside in 3D, set up to look like yours, or a photo of your own house with your own tap areas.
• Solar panels, grid, battery, car, heat pump, air conditioning, gas and water in their place, with thin power lines and calm values around the house. Tap a part for today’s chart, forecast and costs.
• Solar panels on one roof half or on both, such as east-west, also in the solar forecast.
• The sun stands where it really is, the weather follows the forecast, and in the evening your real outdoor lamps burn, as do the windows of rooms with a lamp on.
• Tap a storey and you fly inside: live floor plans in 2D, 2.5D and 3D, with lamps that fade on and off.
• At the top only what needs attention, such as an open window, the bins or the cheapest hours.
• An “I’m leaving” check, buttons for moods and Flows, a night clock, the doorbell with its camera image, alarm, climate per room, who is home, media, vacuum, lists and the meals of the week.
• Advice on what to do with your power right now, also as a Flow trigger.
• A Flow can show something on a screen: the camera, a message, a storey or the Energy page.
• Light, dark, as your device, or with the sun, and named screens that take their choices to a new tablet.
• A Floor plan widget for Homey dashboards.

Everything runs as a web page in your own home network. A wall tablet, laptop or phone only needs a browser.

Energy

The Energy page with all blocks of Energy Dashboard is now part of the app. If you already have Energy Dashboard, the Energy button simply opens that app, with its own settings and history. Both keep working side by side.

The editor

You set everything up on a computer or tablet, in the browser: http://<your-homey>:8687/editor

• Quick start from your Homey zones: every device starts in its room
• Rooms of any shape: pull a blue plus on the edge for an L-shape
• Doors, windows, furniture and lamps of the right kind
• Under House you set up your home: type, roof, facade, surroundings and solar panels
• You can also edit in 3D

Start from a picture

Do you have a floor plan from the estate agent (image or PDF)? Add it, measure one known length, and the editor recognises walls, rooms, doors and windows. This all happens in your browser; the image goes nowhere.

The widget

On a Homey dashboard the Floor plan widget shows the same live plan or your house, in Homey’s dark or light mode. In the widget settings you choose the plan, the level, the view and optionally a side panel with clock, weather and calendar.

Install

Test version: HomeDeck | Homey

1. Install the app and open the app settings.
2. Choose “Open editor” and begin with the quick start from your Homey zones.
3. Set up your house under House.
4. Open the dashboard on your tablet, or add the widget to a Homey dashboard.

An access code and an edit PIN are optional in the settings.

The full manual: homey-floorplan-dashboard/docs/manual.md at main · WNijhof/homey-floorplan-dashboard · GitHub

Feedback

This is still a test version, so all feedback is more than welcome. Reply below with what works, what is odd and what you miss. Even “it works fine on my tablet” helps me.

If something is wrong with a device, use “Report a problem” (the ! at the top right of the dashboard, or in the app settings). It makes an anonymous report without names or address. Send that report directly to me, by mail or private message here on the forum, not in this topic.

The furniture models are by Kenney, KayKit and Quaternius (CC0).

My other projects

• Energy Dashboard: a live energy screen for every screen in your home
• HomeWindow: control your Homey Pro from the Windows taskbar

Support

Want to give something back? You can on Ko-fi, with the button below. The app stays free, a donation is entirely voluntary.

[Arie_J_Godschalk]

Sounds cool!
Do you have a screenshot of the Homey Widget and how that looks?

[WNijhof]

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[WNijhof]

Thanks! Here is the widget with the demo home. It shows the same live plan as the dashboard, in 2D or 2.5D, in Homey’s dark or light mode. Tap a lamp for its controls. In the widget settings you choose the plan, the level, the view and how it is turned, and optionally a side panel with clock, weather and calendar.

I have added these to the first post as well.

[WNijhof]

Update: 0.2.0 is on the test channel, and Floor Plan Dashboard is now called HomeDeck

This is the biggest update so far. It is still a test version, so all feedback is more than welcome, even if it is only “it works”.

Install: HomeDeck | Homey

It is the same app with a new name. Your plans and settings stay. From this version you can export everything in the editor under Backup, and the app also makes a copy of its own before each update.

What is new

• The dashboard opens on your house in 3D, with its energy. You set that up under House in the editor. Prefer to start with a storey? Choose that under the gear, per screen.
• The Energy page is part of the app. If you already have Energy Dashboard, the Energy button opens that app, and nothing changes there.
• Solar panels can lie on one roof half or on both, such as east-west.
• At the top only what needs attention, and there is an “I’m leaving” check.
• Buttons for moods and Flows, night clock, doorbell, alarm, climate per room, who is home, media, vacuum, lists and the meals of the week.
• Lamps fade on and off.
• The left bar of the editor has labels, and there is a quick start from your Homey zones.
• Rooms can have any shape: pull a blue plus on the edge, or choose Make L-shaped.
• There is now a manual: homey-floorplan-dashboard/docs/manual.md at main · WNijhof/homey-floorplan-dashboard · GitHub

What changed

• There is one 2.5D view left, the higher one. If you used one of the other two, your screen or widget switches to it by itself.
• Furniture from one model set stood back to front and has been turned around. If you turned a piece by hand, it may now stand the wrong way. Select it and turn it back.
• The house has a smooth dark facade by default. You can choose brick or white plaster under House.
• Dimmable devices now count as lamps, even when their app reports them as a socket.

How to start

1. Update the app with the link above.
2. Open the editor, choose House and set up your home: type, roof, direction of the front and solar panels.
3. Do you have a level for the rest, such as garden or basement? Name it Other or Basement, for example, and it does not count as a storey of the house.

Please help

I have not been able to try this on many different Homeys yet. I would especially like to hear how this works for you:

• the speed on your tablet
• moods, Flows, doorbell and alarm
• the Energy page without Energy Dashboard
• the widget on a Homey dashboard

If something is wrong with a device, use “Report a problem” (the ! at the top right of the dashboard) and send the report by mail or private message, not in this topic.