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Rooms

HKI 7 maps Home Assistant's areas to rooms and its floors to the groups they sit in. The Rooms page is a card per room; tapping one opens that room's own screen.

Rooms come from Home Assistant areas

This is the one piece of Home Assistant setup HKI 7 genuinely depends on. If your devices are not assigned to areas, there are no rooms to show — auto-generation has nothing to group by, the per-room counters have nothing to count, and the role slots below have nothing to discover.

Set them up in Home Assistant under Settings → Areas, labels & zones, assign devices to them under Settings → Devices & Services → Devices, then re-run the dashboard import or add the rooms by hand.

The Rooms page

Room cards are grouped by floor, each floor a section with its own heading. A floor can be full or half width, which is how you get two small rooms side by side and the living room across the whole row.

Each card shows the room's wallpaper or colour, its name and icon, and a status summary — what is currently on or open in there. It also shows motion, presence and people counters when the room has entities that report them.

Tapping a counter lists exactly what it is counting. The people counter shows who is in the room, with each person's Home Assistant picture, and the Rooms header carries a household counter that shows where everyone is — a way to see the whole home at once without opening each room.

The Lights and Devices counters tally every light and switch shown in the room. A button that sits in a room without really belonging to it — a TV backlight, a switch driving something next door — can be left out under Leave out of counters in its settings, which keeps the control and only stops it being counted.

Room detail

A room screen is a dashboard in its own right: it takes the same buttons, stacks, badges and widgets as any other page, and edits the same way.

Above that, HKI 7 gives every room four role slots that get their own prominent controls:

Slot Typical entities
Lock lock.* — the room's door
Climate climate.* — its thermostat or AC
Camera camera.* — a live stream
Blinds cover.* — shades and curtains

Each slot takes several entities, not just one, and each has its own icon override. They are auto-discovered from the area's devices on import, and stay auto-discovered until you change them — after which HKI 7 leaves your choice alone.

Room configuration

Open a room's settings to set:

Identity

Name, icon, wallpaper image and header colour, and which floor it belongs to.

Role entities

The lock / climate / camera / blinds slots described above, plus their icons.

Media players

Which players belong to this room. Auto-discovered, and left alone once you customise them.

Temperature and humidity

One or more sensors each. Multiple sources are averaged, so a room with three thermometers reports one sensible number rather than whichever the importer happened to pick.

Status summary

Which entities feed the "what is on in here" line on the room card and header, keyed by role.

Badge bar

The room's own badges, configured independently of the Home page's.

People in a room

If your household runs a room-presence sensor — ESPresense or Home Assistant's mqtt_room — HKI 7 can show who is currently in each room, and optionally follow a person from room to room as they move.

Nothing in the app talks to MQTT. Those integrations publish the room name as an ordinary sensor state, and HKI 7 reads that sensor like any other.

Setting this up is a family-sharing feature, because the sensor roster is configured once for the household rather than on every phone:

Room following

Hiding a room

An admin can hide whole rooms from specific family members, so a child's phone never shows the master bedroom.

Hiding is not a permission

This hides the room from HKI 7's interface. Home Assistant has no per-entity read permission for non-admin users, so anyone in the household can still reach those entities through Home Assistant directly. See Family sharing.