No area specification for groups in ZHA - best practice?

So I created a bunch of ZHA groups in the ZHA integration for HA and they created entities as they should. Unlike HA groups they don’t allow a specific area as they always use the area/room of the ZigBee coordinator (in my case SkyConnect). Can you confirm this? It’s a bit annoying to see that my SkyConnect is located in “Office” and now all the groups are in “Office” too with the only possibility to change it for the coordinator.

I don’t want to use HA groups since they work sequentially which creates reliability problems and I don’t like that short delay, especially for larger groups. The experience with ZHA groups is very smooth. Now I was thinking to create an HA group for every ZHA group and just put it in there, so that the entitites get their signals simultaneously. Advantage: I could then set up different rooms for HA groups. Disadvantage: Avoidable overhead (double the amound of entities) and not sure if this will have an impact on the performance. What do you think is the best way? Or am I having an issue that no one else has? :grinning:

The area for ZHA group entities can be changed by deselecting “Use device area” in the entity’s settings and assigning it to the desired area.

1 Like