I would love to see a Rooms tab on the sidebar that allowed me to navigate my home per room.
You can see something similar in the following apps.
- Apple Home, there is a ‘Rooms’ tab item and a rooms list, accessible by tapping the house icon.
- SmartThings, after tapping on the house icon, from the devices tab (this used to be easier to get to).
Suggestions for UX:
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Apple and SmartThings have hidden the room browser beneath the house icon, but personally, I think having the house and the room name in one line, like a breadcrumb would be a lot easier to understand for new users eg. House > Dining Room.
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It would be nice to be able to order that list rooms through drag and drop.
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It would be useful to be able to star just certain devices within those rooms, as well as order those devices.
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If would be incredible to be able to star certain functions to the top of the room card, via little icons (in a single line), so that common actions could be performed at pace.
(I know Lovelace’s Overview has similar functionalities of the above — and is a great start for users with fewer devices, this amplified format quickly becomes overwhelming with lots of devices, especially if those devices have lots of bit of data to them).