Creating "floors" and "areas" inherently unreliable?

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Hi there.

Apologies is this is a stupid newbie question – it may be because I am a newbie, started using Home Assistant only yesterday… :wink:

I’m using an SLZB-06M, and Zigbee-wise it seems to work well. However, the Home Assistant UI somehow behaves “strangely.” I have a house with 4 floors, and I want to have these floors (cellar, ground floor, 1st floor, studio) show up in HA. I took me a couple of tries to create these floors, on the “Add a device” screen or when directly invoked from “Settings” > “Areas, labels & zones.” The same goes for “zones”, which I want to use for the different rooms I have on each floor.

Eventually, the floor or zone “was just there”, but it feels weird that such a simple operation doesn’t work “instantaneously”…

Is this “normal?” Can I somehow investigate what’s up with my install?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards,

Ralf

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Zones in HA are locations on a larger scale than Areas or Floors. Locations like Home, Work, School, Grocery store…

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Sorry, my fault. I meant to type “areas.”

Anyway, can you comment on this weird “delayed” creation of these resources?

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Normally adding areas or floors should be instantaneous. If you are seeing a noticeable lag, it could be coming from a bunch of sources. It might help with a diagnosis if you provide more details about the hardware you are using for your server, the type of install, and any logs that might be relevant.

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Ok, I’m using HA Core 2024.12.4, Supervisor 2024.12.0, Frontend 20241127.8, running under Ubuntu Server 24.04.1 LTS in a “Home Assistant Supervised” setup on an old Dell Latitude D630 laptop with a Intel Core2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz and 3 GB of RAM.

I realize this Ubuntu install is not officially supported, but it’s hard to imagine that the problem would be the result of this.

I tried to look at the logs using docker logs --since 1h homeassistant, but there don’t seem to be any meaningful messages.

Any advice how to debug this?

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Have you seen my response? Any help to dig out further evidence that might reveal a problem, please?