New Floor Planning Feature

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We’re very pleased to announce the addition of a Floor Planning feature to the Alta Labs cloud control platform!

You can find this feature in your sites dropdown list or visit https://manage.alta.inc/plan:

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There are many bells and whistles integrated into this feature, so some highlights are:

  • Import PDF of your floor plan
  • Multiple floors
  • Place the devices on that site on the floor plan
  • Create “Planned Devices” so you can do an entire plan prior to purchasing any equipment
    • Create a “Wish List” of devices, then have the list emailed to you for quick reference and/or shopping
  • Set the scale for the best precision
  • Draw walls
  • Simulate various materials and their impact on WiFi (both 2.4GHz and 5GHz)

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We invite you to try out the floor planner and provide any feedback on this thread.

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Hi,
It is a good tool but guess it is far from complete developed.

  1. The window that is open is very small 1/3 of the window.
  2. The walls are moving and don’t stick to the location
  3. The components are moving too.
  4. During drawing of walls the line is shown off from the location where the cursor is placed.
  5. Scale changes with no reason when closed and reopen the function
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But I really hope you will optimize the tool so it will work as intended.
MBR

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What is the estimated time for Control users?

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It would be great to get a multifloor ability.
If we have access points mounted on several floors it would be good to see the coverage through the floors.
That would be really useful to evaluate a multi story home.

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Can you take a video of the issues you are seeing, and let us know what browser/OS/version you are using? We do not see components move as you are describing.

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@Alta-Jeff , I can not make a video for the moment.
You can see it from the picture, when I draw the walls they was drawn on top of the walls. and the items inside the property. But it looks like when I pan the floor the wall was not moving at the same time.
I have made the floorplan now and the issue I had that morning has not shown up again.
I will however try again later with some new floorplans and see the wall and the equipment moves again.

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Had a chance to try this out this morning and seems to be working pretty well so far!

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I did notice that it could allow the floorplan to take up more screen real estate like @Astina14 mentioned. Example screenshot is on a 27" 1440p montior in this instance and the floorplan is kept to it’s corner when the controller is full screen. Also zooming in with the scroll wheel can feel a bit sluggish, but both of those issues are fairly minor for my own use anyway.

No issues with walls or components moving during my testing at this point. Mostly been working in Microsoft Edge on Windows 11 just for reference.

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