Today, we can create Zones that are based on center point location and radius, this makes it hard to create Zones for places that are near to each other, like buildings, or parts of your backyard, because sometimes the circles may overlap each other:
we should be able to create such zones:
There is an architecture discussion: Allow zone to be a polygon · home-assistant/architecture · Discussion #1014 · GitHub so anyone interested in this feature please vote on it as well.
Yes please! I have two zones that are next to each other making it difficult to tell if I’m at the gym or in the pool even a simple 4 point polygon would fix my issue.
It is currently next to impossible to create zones usable in automations in NYC. In order to capture, let’s say, all of lower Manhattan, the radius circle will include parts of a separate borough (e.g. Brooklyn) or another state (NJ)! Nor can one create a zone east or west of a street and have it include more than just one small entry point. Is someone on a water taxi in the East River or on Wall Street?
I have way too many tiny little zones because of the density of NYC and the lack of precision in creating zones. Any large city or downtown area suffers this same fate. I have to make guesses in my automations based on direction of travel, previous zones, etc. to decide if an action should occur (e.g. send notification reminder to … or mark item as …).
I look forward to zone polygons and the automations I can create based on reliable location data.
This is already being worked on, I have no idea what the status is. I’ll put the link to the thread here if I can find it.