Lovelace - Rooms Tab

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:

  1. 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.

  2. It would be nice to be able to order that list rooms through drag and drop.

  3. It would be useful to be able to star just certain devices within those rooms, as well as order those devices.

  4. 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).