PadSpan HA — Room-level BLE presence tracking with floor plans, 3D maps, and calibration — exiting alpha March 2026

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been building PadSpan HA — a custom integration that turns your existing Bluetooth scanners into a full room-level presence tracking system — and it’s coming out of alpha in March 2026.

This started as a personal project because I wanted more than just “home” or “away.” I wanted to know which room my phone was in, see it on a floor plan, and get alerts when my kids’ trackers moved between rooms. Nothing out there did all of that, so I built it.

What’s in the alpha right now

  • Room-level BLE tracking with 5-second updates (not just home/away)
  • Upload floor plans and draw room boundary polygons right in the UI
  • 3D multi-floor isometric maps with live object positions
  • Walk-around calibration system — k-NN fingerprint matching + path-loss model fitting
  • Follow mode — pick any tag, watch it move room to room with an animated map
  • Email alerts when a tracked device changes rooms
  • 21 dedicated views (Basic mode for simplicity, Advanced for power users)
  • Full HA entities — area sensors, distance sensors, device trackers, binary sensors
  • Works with ESPresense, Bermuda proxies, or any HA Bluetooth proxy
  • Sample mode — explore every feature with synthetic data before plugging in hardware
  • 11 languages (EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, NL, ZH, JA, KO, RU)
  • Standalone phone-friendly calibration panel for walk-around data collection
  • Per-scanner signal quality metrics, WiFi SSID/IP display
  • Built-in Training Hub with guided walkthroughs

What’s coming for the beta

More details soon — but think tighter HA dashboard integration, automation blueprints, and some things I’m not ready to talk about yet.

Try the alpha now

  1. HACS → Custom repositories → add gbroeckling/padspanHA (Integration)
  2. Install PadSpan HA → Restart HA
  3. Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration → PadSpan HA

Feedback and bug reports welcome — drop them here or open an issue on GitHub.

GitHub: GitHub - gbroeckling/padspanHA: The most comprehensive BLE room-presence tracking system for Home Assistant — room-level tracking, 3D floor plans, calibration, follow mode, 21 views · GitHub

More coming in March.

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Looks promising. I will try it out next week

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This is exciting!

I’ve been working on an ESPresense-companion deployment for about a month now. It’s been a challenge. Positional accuracy and stability hasn’t been great. Stationary devices tend to float through walls. I was about ready to go back to traditional nearest node location tracking.

I’ve been looking into UWB and AoA based solutions. What I’ve found so far is still experimental. But the hardware is there, it’s reasonably priced, and it doesn’t terribly difficult to integrate.

Do you have any thoughts on supporting UWB or AoA for increased location accuracy and stability? Or using mmWave/PIR for presence detection, combined with BT RSSI for occupancy detection?

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