ViewAssist Room Panels

Reusable Home Assistant assets for ViewAssist dashboards with per-area navigation and dynamic room/light panels.

What This Repo Includes

• blueprints/va-room-light-blueprint.yml: Automation blueprint that:
  • Loads an area-to-entities map
  • Pushes area_entity_list and areas_entity_map into ViewAssist entities
  • Handles voice navigation for Lights, Room, and Areas panels
• views/lights.yml: Dynamic per-area lights/scenes panel
• views/room.yml: Dynamic per-area room status/control panel
• views/areas.yml: Area launcher panel with high-level room chips
• templates/custom_icon_templates.yml: Optional button-card templates for menu shortcuts
• examples/areas-example.json: Generic example area/entity mapping
• areas-mysetup.json: Personal/local mapping (gitignored)

Requirements

• Home Assistant with:
  • ViewAssist
  • button-card
  • Mushroom cards
  • card-mod
• A ViewAssist dashboard already created
• ViewAssist satellite/audio entities assigned to Home Assistant Areas

Quick Start

1. Copy blueprints/va-room-light-blueprint.yml to:
   • /config/blueprints/automation/<your_namespace>/
2. Import the blueprint in Home Assistant Automation UI.
3. Use examples/areas-example.json as your template and create your own local mapping JSON.
4. Create 3 panel views in your ViewAssist dashboard:
   • Lights (views/lights.yml)
   • Room (views/room.yml)
   • Areas (views/areas.yml)
5. Add optional menu templates from templates/custom_icon_templates.yml under button_card_templates in your raw dashboard YAML.
6. Run the automation once manually, then test voice commands.

Voice Commands

Default commands included in blueprint inputs:

• show lights
• show <area> lights
• show room
• show <area> room
• show areas

Configuration Notes

• Area names from voice are normalized to lowercase snake_case (Living Room -> living_room).
• areas_json keys should match normalized area IDs used by your setup.
• areas-mysetup.json is intended for local/private data and excluded from git.

Installation Guide

See INSTALL.md for full setup instructions.

Notes

This is a personal project and support is best-effort. Pull requests are welcome, but review/merge timing is not guaranteed.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.