Feat: Improve user friendliness by leveraging the new focus in hass

[adrianipopescu]

Given that the latest versions have put more and more emphasis on having rooms / devices properly mapped such that they show on the new dashboard, it would be interesting to have that pre-population as part of this firmware as well.

[BigBobbas]

Hi ,
when you add the device to HA for the first time it asks at that point which area to add the device to. Or you can manually change this from the ESPHome integration page for the device. Or were you refering to something different ?
Many Thanks
Rob

[adrianipopescu]

Was more specifically talking about making the on-device ui retreive the same hierarchy as hass, such that newbies don't need to edit yaml to get the out of the box experience.

In essence it's just at device startup poll hass for defined floors/rooms, then per room poll for devices + maybe the new side panel things (media, climate, security) and cache on device to reduce random back and forward.

Or is that baked in nowadays? I'm running a version that's getting to be quite old.