A picked raster is now classified from its HEADER BYTES ONLY before anything heavy happens: src/backdrop-probe.ts parses PNG IHDR (+colour type/tRNS for alpha), JPEG SOF and WebP VP8/VP8L/VP8X at fixed offsets, never using a file field as an allocation size; hostile or truncated headers collapse to 'unknown', which warns without numbers instead of passing silently. The thresholds live in that module as the single calibration point (WARN_DECODED_BYTES 128 MiB ≈ 32 MP, HARD_DIMENSION 16384 — the browser canvas cap, DOWNSCALE_TARGET_PX 4096), derived from the desktop-Chromium matrix now committed as demo/benchmark_backdrop_decode.mjs with a conservative tablet margin documented in the spec. The shared pick flow (src/backdrop-pick.ts) feeds BOTH lazy runtimes — the editor space dialog and the onboarding first-space dialog — so the guard cannot drift between them, and nothing of it enters the eager View graph. Warn shows the real numbers and three actions; the reduced copy decodes EXIF-aware, keeps aspect and alpha (PNG stays PNG, opaque becomes JPEG q0.9) and flows through the ordinary planFile → upload path. Hard has two phases with one outcome: beyond 16384 px only Cancel; a failed or timed-out (10 s) reduce closes with a toast, clean staging and NO silent fallback to the original the user just declined. SVG never reaches the probe. The safe path swaps the manual byte-loop base64 for FileReader — half the JS-heap peak on every upload, byte-identical output (parity asserted in the smoke). Proofs: header-table units incl. a fuzz set of hostile headers and ±1 threshold bounds; smoke_backdrop_guard on the real bundle — zero decode calls before the choice, byte parity of keep-original, a real 6200 px reduce to 4096 for both alpha and opaque branches, cancel-only hard dialog, both phase-2 failures (reject and hang under the test-only timeout override), re-pick after refusal, SVG bypass; four registry mutants (probe-always-safe, alpha-dropped, hard-demoted, phase-2 silent fallback). Spec anchor corrected alongside: the server plan limit is 8 MB (MAX_PLAN_BYTES), attachments are the 50 MB path — an 8 MB JPEG is easily 80-160 MP decoded, so the client-side guard stays the primary defence. Issue: #39 User-Visible: yes
🏠 House Plan — a live home map for Home Assistant
📘 Full user guide · 🇷🇺 Русский · 🗂 Project issues
Your whole home at a glance
House Plan turns Home Assistant into a live map of your home. Upload a plan or draw rooms directly on the dashboard, bind them to Home Assistant areas, and the area's devices appear automatically. You can immediately see where a light is on, a door is open, a room is too cold, Zigbee signal is weak, or a leak sensor has fired.
Setup is entirely graphical: no floor-plan YAML, Inkscape, or external editor. Plan data and device positions live on the Home Assistant server and stay in sync across screens.
Edit on a desktop computer. View and kiosk are fully supported on phones and tablets. The editors are designed primarily for a mouse and keyboard; individual touch editing operations may be awkward or unavailable. See the exact touch support contract.
What House Plan provides
- Live state and safe actions. Lights and other safe devices can toggle from the plan; a lock cannot be opened by an accidental plan tap.
- Three built-in editors. Plan creates rooms, walls and openings; Device places and configures markers; Background adds lines, labels and furniture.
- Area-aware rooms. New devices appear automatically, while room cards can show temperature, humidity, light state and average LQI.
- Light and environment. Room fills, lamp Glow, wall shadows, a day-cycle backdrop and sunlight through windows.
- Doors, windows, gates and vacuums. Openings follow real contacts and locks; a robot can show its position, dock and travelled path.
- Several floors and screens. Space tabs, swipe navigation, local viewport, and a separate initial floor for each card.
- Wall-display kiosk. A plan-only view with fullscreen navigation and icon sizes saved for that display.
Your first working room
- Install the integration and add the card to a dashboard.
- Create the first space: upload SVG/PNG/JPG/WebP, reuse an uploaded image, or choose no image and draw the plan by hand.
- In Plan, select Room outline, place vertices, and click the first point to close the outline.
- Name the room and bind it to a Home Assistant area. Use “No area” for a room that has no devices.
- Open Device: devices from the bound area are already placed; drag their markers to the correct positions.
- Optionally use Background for lines, text and furniture.
- Return to View. The plan now displays live state and accepts safe actions.
Every workflow and edge case is in the full user guide. The Background editor contract and vacuum guide are the authorities for those subsystems.
Installation
HACS
House Plan is in the HACS default catalog — no custom repository needed.
- In HACS search for House Plan and install it.
- Restart Home Assistant.
- Open Settings → Devices & services → Add integration → House Plan.
The card is registered automatically. If you manage Lovelace resources manually, use the URL served by the integration:
resources:
- url: /houseplan_files/houseplan-card.js
type: module
Do not use the on-disk path inside custom_components; Home Assistant does not
serve that path as a JavaScript module.
Manual installation
Copy the complete custom_components/houseplan release folder to
config/custom_components, restart Home Assistant, and add the House Plan
integration. Do not copy only houseplan-card.js: the card also uses an
internal manifest and content-hashed modules from the same release.
Add the card
Create a dashboard view (Panel works best) and add the card in the UI or as:
type: custom:houseplan-card
title: House plan
Different screens may start on different spaces:
type: custom:houseplan-card
default_floor: ground
All cards share server-side rooms and coordinates. Current mode, viewport and selected space remain local to the screen. Revision checks and live sync cover concurrent clients, but avoid editing the same object in two browsers at once.
Detailed documentation
- Full user guide
- Mouse/touch/keyboard matrix
- Plan tools
- Background editor
- Robot vacuums
- Touch support
Support and feedback
- Questions and plan examples: Telegram @ha_houseplan.
- Bugs and proposals: GitHub Issues.
- Before reporting, update House Plan, restart HA and hard-refresh the page. Include the version, browser, logs and reproduction steps; private entity IDs may be replaced with fictional ones.
Documentation screenshots are produced by the reproducible
npm run build && node demo/docs/capture.mjs command using synthetic data only. Scenario version,
source fingerprint and every image hash are recorded in the
screenshot index.
License: MIT.






