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Grouping zones (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 week ago by SteveDinn to c/[email protected]

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Is there any way to group zones together? I would like to define zones that are not necessarily circular in shape. I can accomplish what I want by overlapping several of them, but I really want to group them together and treat them as one zone. Is this possible?

I suppose I could probably script up a template trigger...

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[–] SteveDinn 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A person's state becomes the name of the zone when they're in them.

In the current version of Home Assistant, if a person is in two overlapping zones, what happens? It's possible to be in that state today.

I suppose it doesn't really matter though. I've named all my home zones similarly: home1, home2, etc. It would be easy enough to check for a zone where the object_id starts with "home"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Good question, I'd guess it would be the closest to the center of whichever zone.
I haven't tested them, but if they work, it'd be easier to use non circular zones than deal with multiple overlapping ones.