Step 10: Detail

To wrap up everything that helps enable automation you need to know about three more core functions within Home Assistant:

  • zones
  • areas
  • scenes

You have one zone setup from the beginning which is your Home zone, you can add other zones and areas directly through the Configuration panel.

Configurations -> Zones

Entering or leaving a zone can be used to trigger automations in your home. To take full advantage of this you need a device tracker linked to your user – this will be covered in the next stride.

Configuration -> Areas

Areas can be setup to group entities into an area or most likely a room. That way you can affect entities in a particular area. Devices will need to be configured to know what area it exists within.

Configuration -> Scenes

Finally scenes can put a set of entities into a particular pre-configured state, such as having a night mode scene that turns all lights out and disables motion detection in the bedrooms.

Complete: Stride 2: Lights, Camera, …