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Like when you create a zone, it's a circle. It has a radius. I want a zone that is an arbitrary shape, so I compose it out of several smaller zones. I want to formally make it a single zone in Home Assistant by grouping them. Currently you can't add zones to groups or create a zone with
type: groupor anything like that.So I think you're just confused about the organization names. Let me try to clarify:
These are all simply just representative logical units, and can be whatever you want them to be. An area can be a whole house, or it can be a room in a house, or maybe just a closet in a room. Whatever you assign to that group is then used for triggers:
"Turn on all lights in bedroom"
"Turn off all kitchen lights"
Say you have 12 lights in a garage, you want to separate them into groups. You create a group called "garage-lights-1", and assign half to that, then another for "garage-lights-2", and the others there. You can then just create an automation for either group, OR also assign each group to an area called "Garage" if you intend to turn them all on or off at the same time, or create scenes that do different things with different lights. Any entity in HA can be apart of many groups at the same time since it's just a logical thing to help with organizations.
I am pretty sure I'm not confused. I want to group zones together so they can be used in automation triggers and I can change the group's membership and not have to change every automation trigger. The group's state should indicate the number of person entities that were in any zone in the group.
I'm not talking about areas at all.
Just to be clear, I don't believe grouping zones is currently possible. It's just a want I have.
Well zones pretty much exist to not be grouped. That's their organization function, and why I'm confused about what you're asking.
Why don't you just explain exactly what you need to accomplish, and then maybe we can help you.
I...honestly thought I just did that. I want to have an irregularly-shaped zone. I don't see why they couldn't logically be grouped, you just aren't able to do it right now.
Anyway, thanks for reading what I typed.
I think they meant explain the root issue like "I want automation X to trigger if I'm at my cool neighbor's houses but not if I'm at my lame neighbor's houses" rather than focusing on your specific train of thought on how to solve said issue.