This probably should be two topics. If needed I'll split it.
1. Device Organization
There's floor, room, device name (created when adding device)
For many devices there's several entries. Like for a door sensor I get 4 things, root device, Access Control Notification, Battery, Sensor Binary Door_Window.
This is similar for lots of devices, like motion sensors as well. Minus the access control.
Question is which should I rename to be "my device" the root device? The access control notification or the Sensor Binary?
I've also noticed that with creating events things get ordered by floor,room,name which made it difficult at first, now I've just moved everything to floor=interior/exterior and room=well room. But it still make it difficult to pick the right device. Example I have two "Access Control Notifications" that show up when creating a scene, but it doesn't tell me the floor just the room/name so I don't know which is which. So I'm looking for tips best practice for organizing things.
Second:
Events have Group -> Events -> Your Event
Inside the Group there's a "Group Conditions" and "Group Actions". With that I'm wondering on usage and with organizing. Take what I have now.
Now I have:
Groups
-- Interior Lights
----- Bathroom
-------- Bathroom Lights - On
-------- Bathroom Lights - Off
-------- Kitchen Lights - On
-------- Kitchen Lights - Off
-- Exterior Lights
---- Area1
etc etc
I'm thinking I may not be doing this "correctly" with how HS3 works. Can someone give me some guidance on this? Maybe a link to a more comprehensive manual? Is there one? I don't want to be the pest and get the RTFM responses, but I really haven't seen an actual "manual" yet.
1. Device Organization
There's floor, room, device name (created when adding device)
For many devices there's several entries. Like for a door sensor I get 4 things, root device, Access Control Notification, Battery, Sensor Binary Door_Window.
This is similar for lots of devices, like motion sensors as well. Minus the access control.
Question is which should I rename to be "my device" the root device? The access control notification or the Sensor Binary?
I've also noticed that with creating events things get ordered by floor,room,name which made it difficult at first, now I've just moved everything to floor=interior/exterior and room=well room. But it still make it difficult to pick the right device. Example I have two "Access Control Notifications" that show up when creating a scene, but it doesn't tell me the floor just the room/name so I don't know which is which. So I'm looking for tips best practice for organizing things.
Second:
Events have Group -> Events -> Your Event
Inside the Group there's a "Group Conditions" and "Group Actions". With that I'm wondering on usage and with organizing. Take what I have now.
Now I have:
Groups
-- Interior Lights
----- Bathroom
-------- Bathroom Lights - On
-------- Bathroom Lights - Off
-------- Kitchen Lights - On
-------- Kitchen Lights - Off
-- Exterior Lights
---- Area1
etc etc
I'm thinking I may not be doing this "correctly" with how HS3 works. Can someone give me some guidance on this? Maybe a link to a more comprehensive manual? Is there one? I don't want to be the pest and get the RTFM responses, but I really haven't seen an actual "manual" yet.
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