Advanced Labels

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Home Assistant now has many ways to group entities: areas, labels, categories, floors, groups, etc. They are really nice and a substantial improvement compared to the past.

Unfortunately all of them still require a lot of manual assignments and lack any support for more advanced use cases.

This can be quite problematic. For example when I want to have a desk area, that is a part of an office area, there is currently no native support for such an abstraction, as areas cannot be nested.

So I decided to make a custom component, that would enable support for such advanced scenarios by utilising labels. Labels are the most flexible of the currently available Home Assistant groupings, so they are a natural fit for this purpose.

To implement it I had to write quite hacky code, but it does work for me for some time now.

Here is the gist of what’s possible:

labels:
  desk_area:
    parents:
      - office_area
  office_area:
    parents:
      - first_floor
      - work_spaces
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Version 0.3

Add support for Home Assistant Assist

Now it is possible to use voice to control devices in nested areas.

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This is really nice, and it shows that it could have been done this way instead of having the much more inflexible areas.

I really hope someone at Nabu casa takes a closer look at this, because this is really how it should work.

If user have a hard time understanding it then well just keep areas as hey are today but under the hood they would just be labels instead.

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Version 0.7: Dynamic label rules

It is now possible to assign a label to an entity, only if it already has some combination of other labels. For example:

upstairs_bedrooms: label("upstairs") and label("bedrooms")