Is there any possibility to write comments in the floor plan card?

[Trzinka]

Hi! My floor plan card has become almost unreadable and if I enter a comment (# Settings for lights) in order to find it faster, I can find the line where I have the settings for the behavior of the lights. But it would be even better if I could have a separate yaml file that I could edit with Visual studio?

[OzGav]

Not sure I inderstand the problem. As you say you can add comments to the YAML. You don't have to use the HA UI to edit the view. I have mine in YAML and I edit it with notepad++

[Trzinka]

Hi OzGav! Thanks for the reply. I can't write comments right now because the floor plan card automatically deletes them (not sure if the card is the culprit). I noticed somewhere that they make a floor plan yaml file and can edit it with Visual studio. as an example in the folder www/fp/fp.yaml

[OzGav]

Yes I believe that is the HA UI doing that. Maybe this will help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AU5i-WUUxw

[Trzinka]

Oh yeah!
I just need to understand how to set to current settings!
Thank you.

[Trzinka]

OzGav, I don't know why I can't buy you coffe with my new card anymore? Is there any other way to give you a some amount of € for your efforts?

[OzGav]

😁 no it’s fine. Thanks.

[Trzinka]

Do you have any desire for something from AliExpress for about €15, so I can buy it for you?

[OzGav]

It’s fine thanks. I appreciate your sincerity.

[Trzinka]

Apparently, I added the following to configuration.yaml too quickly and not carefully:

# Set Lovelace mode
lovelace:
  mode: storage
  dashboards:
    # Add dashboard in YAML mode
    floorplan-community:
      mode: yaml
      filename: lovelace/floorplan-community.yaml
      title: Floorplan Community
      icon: mdi:account-voice
      show_in_sidebar: true
      require_admin: false

Since it didn't bring me the desired result, I later deleted the code written above and restarted HA.

Now the problem has arisen because the grid card, which also contains the floor plan card, does not show the floor plan card!

Did the code above change the settings so much somewhere that simply removing the code and rebooting doesn't fix them and I have to do something else to achieve this?

[OzGav]

I don’t know. It shouldn’t have. I do most of my dashboards in yaml so I’m not that well versed in the UI mode. I would look at what is in the UI editor now. You could also try asking in the HA forums?

[Trzinka]

OzGav thanks for the reply.

The floor plan grid card looked like this:

How it was configured is under show and tell.

Now I'm trying again like this:

I get stuck here:

But maybe there is another way that I don't know yet.

By the way, I almost always configure yaml myself just for the sake of use

card_mod:
 styles:

[OzGav]

Maybe this? https://community.home-assistant.io/t/lovelace-include-files/81641/5

[Trzinka]

Thanks again.
As I could have expected, Home Assistant crashed again due to insufficient disk space!!! ;=(((((((((()

When I restart it and restore the backup) I'll test and let you know).

[Trzinka]

It's a bit more complicated but doable!:

#1 In the root directory, you create a file called fp.yaml, for example

#2 In configuration.yaml add:

lovelace:
  mode: storage
  dashboards:
    lovelace-yaml:
      mode: yaml
      title: Flore plan-Grid
      icon: mdi:floor-plan
      show_in_sidebar: true
      filename: fp.yaml

and save it.

#3 You copy the content of the card in yaml format from the desired one to the created fp.yaml file and save it.

#4 Restart HA.

#5 The new icon and name you specified in configuration.yaml will appear in your sidebar.

#6 You can now delete the old card!