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- mission, personas/surfaces, core jobs J1-J7 with coverage status, partial list, in-mission gaps, hard out-of-scope list, excess audit (PDF/links + virtual devices kept frozen, LQI promoted to J7) - STATUS.md points to SCOPE.md as the feature guard rail
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Product scope — what House Plan is and is not
Fixed with the owner on 2026-07-22. This document is a guard rail: features are built, improved and accepted only if they serve a job listed here. When a new idea appears, first find its row in this file; if there is none — it belongs to HA core, to another card, or nowhere. Companion documents: PRODUCT.md (market), ROADMAP.md (order of work), UX-MODES.md (interaction model).
Mission
House Plan is the spatial "at a glance + quick act" layer for a Home Assistant home. Upload or draw a floor plan, outline rooms bound to HA areas, and the home's devices appear on a live, tappable map: states, climate, alerts, guarded quick actions. Setup is GUI-only — no Inkscape, no YAML, no external editors. Everything that is not "look at the home spatially and act on the obvious" is somebody else's job.
Target audience
| Persona | Role | Surface |
|---|---|---|
| Home admin (primary) | HA enthusiast, house/large flat, 20–200 devices, several floors; sets up and maintains the plan | Desktop browser (both editors live here) |
| Household members | Non-technical; consume the plan daily, never edit | Wall tablet (kiosk), phone (companion app) |
| Guests / kiosk | View-only glance at the home | Wall tablet |
Design consequence: View mode is the product for two of the three personas. Editors are admin-only tools and must never leak interactions into View (established by UX-MODES; lock guard, inert openings, no drag in View).
Core user jobs — the component must close these
| # | Job (user's words) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| J1 | "Show the whole home and what's happening right now" — live spatial overview: device states, room fills (light/temp/LQI), values, multi-floor tabs | Closed |
| J2 | "Something is wrong — show me where" — leak/smoke/gas pulse, open doors/windows, unlocked locks, red dot on devices HA added silently | Closed |
| J3 | "Let me act on the obvious right from the plan" — tap-to-toggle for safe domains, info cards, guarded lock action (explicit button only, never a plan tap) | Closed |
| J4 | "From zero to a working plan in one evening, no Inkscape/YAML" — image/PDF/draw, floors-import wizard, room polygons bound to areas, curated auto-placement, editable icon rules | Closed; onboarding polish is partial (no registry-driven room suggestions) |
| J5 | "Room climate at a glance" — per-room temperature/humidity, comfort-range fills, room-card metrics | Closed |
| J6 | "Keep the plan true as the home evolves" — new-device flag, two editors, drag/resize, merge/split, multi-client live sync, optimistic locking | Closed |
| J7 | "Is my Zigbee mesh healthy here?" — LQI badges, per-room average, LQI fill | Closed (kept deliberately: cheap, spatial by nature, no in-plan competitor) |
Partially covered — improvement backlog stays inside these
- Touch ergonomics of the editors: corner handles and grid clicks are small on tablets; editors are desktop-first today. Improve, don't redesign.
- Value display: single current value per device; units/precision follow HA formatting only.
- Accessibility:
prefers-reduced-motiononly; no keyboard navigation in editors, no ARIA labelling of the plan. - Docs/screenshots: README predates the two-editor redesign.
Known gaps that fit the mission (build only on owner's request)
- Person/presence shown in rooms (classic floorplan ask; pure J1).
- Plan-level "security glance": one badge for "all locked / N open" (J2).
- Threshold colouring for room-card metrics (J5).
Out of scope — never build, point users to the right tool
- Automations, scenes, scripts, notifications → HA core.
- Device/entity administration (rename, reassign area, disable) → HA registry UIs. We read the registry, we never manage it.
- History, graphs, statistics → recorder/history cards. We show now, not then.
- Camera streams, media controls → their own cards; our more-info opens HA's.
- Energy monitoring/analytics → HA Energy.
- 3D / isometric / photorealistic rendering, furniture drawing → niche tools (easy-floorplan et al.); we are a schematic live map, not an interior editor.
- A general dashboard framework (menus, popups, theming engine) → Bubble Card, Dwains and friends.
Excess-functionality audit (2026-07-22)
- Device metadata: links & PDF manuals — not spatial, but tiny, server-side, and used in real installs. Verdict: keep, frozen (no growth).
- Virtual devices — placeholders for not-yet-installed hardware; serves J6. Verdict: keep, frozen.
- LQI diagnostics — promoted to J7 (differentiator), not excess.
- Nothing found that warrants removal; the mode redesign already moved every interaction to where it belongs.
The component in one breath (README/HACS copy)
House Plan turns your Home Assistant into a live map of your home. Upload a plan image (or draw one), outline rooms and bind them to HA areas — your devices appear in place, automatically, with live states. Glance at the wall tablet: what's on, what's open, what's too cold, what's leaking, what's new. Tap to act — safely: locks never toggle by accident. Two built-in editors (plan and devices) mean no Inkscape, no YAML, no external tools — ever.
Tasks it closes: whole-home live overview · spatial alerts (leak/smoke/open/ unlocked/new device) · safe quick actions · per-room climate · Zigbee mesh health · zero-to-plan GUI onboarding · keeping the plan true over years.
Pains it removes: hand-crafted SVG + YAML floorplans · entity-list dashboards that hide where things happen · silent device sprawl · accidental toggles of security devices · per-device dashboards that non-technical family members can't read.