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Grouping zones (self.homeassistant)

submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

@SteveDinn
Wondering if a template sensor would do the trick?
Like: sum up the number of people in zone1, 2, 3 …
Edit: Overlapping probably will result in higher counts though. You could still have qualitative information, like is anybody in the zone collection or not.
There might still be a way to count, but you would have to check for each person if it is in any of the zones of interest.
If I had to do that, I would probably create a sensor for each person and sum them up.