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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/liquidsoap89 on 2025-06-12 00:13:57+00:00.
Hey everyone. Just wanted to share my first big success story with HA! I'd been wanting to make a floor map dashboard for ages and I finally dove in.
It's a super simple dashboard right now, for the most part it's just a few buttons over things I can control, but I wanted to keep it simple initially so that there was an end in sight. The highlight right now is how turning the lights on illuminates that part of the map. It was really satisfying seeing that work the first time.
Part of this project came from me wanting to get back in to 3D modelling/animation, which I used to do what feels like a lifetime ago. There was a nice mix of nostalgia and discovery making the map and integrating it in to HA.
There was a "top 20 things to do when getting started with HA" post I saw ages ago and one of the points that stood out to me was "share your first success with others". I think that's a great idea (hence this post) because it's easy to get lost in others accomplishments here and not appreciate your own success. This dashboard is hella basic compared to some of the stuff on here, but it's MY dashboard and I feel good about it.
Of course I'm already looking in to version 2. I've had my eyes on this style of dashboard for well over a year now and that's going to tax my programming-limited knowledge to its limits. There's also a lot of additional work I want to do to the map itself, not the least of which is a second pass at the very flat lighting. Looking forward to it though!