areas-floors

To organize Home Assistant devices by physical location, use areas, floors, labels, and zones to build a spatial hierarchy. Assign entities to specific areas for grouped control, and define floors to group areas across multiple levels of your home.

In Home Assistant, areas define physical rooms like a kitchen for device assignment, while zones configure geographical regions for presence detection. Labels provide cross-cutting functional grouping like security across all areas.

To group smart home lights by room for area-based automations, assign individual light entities to a specific Home Assistant area. You can then trigger automations that control all devices assigned to that area simultaneously.

Yes, you can use labels to group Home Assistant entities across different floors. Labels create cross-cutting functional categories like energy or security that span across all defined areas and floors without being restricted by physical hierarchy.

You can set up Home Assistant areas and floors using either YAML configuration or UI settings. Both methods allow you to define physical spaces, assign devices to areas, and establish the hierarchical floor structure for your smart home environment.

To configure presence detection in Home Assistant, define geographical zones that represent specific locations. These zones enable location-aware automations by tracking when devices enter or leave the defined geographical regions.