Confused on how to configure Areas

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Nothing related to Speedtest (example I’m not focus on it :sunglasses:) in the “system room”. And impossible to add Speedtest.

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yes that’s an overview area showing you what you’ve placed in an area… What’s your end goal here? Why is it so important to put something in an area?

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Honestly… it’s confusing. If you have OCD you are wondering why the room in the UI and the system are not the same.

But it’s ok, I will deal with it. Thanks for you answers :+1:

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The area and the UI are not meant to be ‘locked’ together. Area’s help you build the UI without having to take control. As soon as you take control, it’s up to the user to add and remove things from the UI.

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Area in fact are not very interesting ?

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Well here’s some good news. In 1.0 changes to areas are coming.

  1. You can add an entity to area.
  2. You can perform actions on area. E.g. light.turn_on with area_id: kitchen and all the lights in the kitchen will turn on.
  3. Area’s provide hints to voice assistants (Google for now, alexa doesn’t support this).
  4. The area_id will be based on the area’s name instead of a random number.
  5. Areas are included in the target selector UI.

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Nice !!

It seems that they are concerned about it :+1: