Just this past summer I moved from a 600sqft studio apartment to a 3500sqft house with 2 stories and a basement. (Same monthly payment which blows my mind.)
Managing things like voice commands and themes across different rooms and floors was easy because there was nothing to manage. But now it’s kinda chaos.
Currently I have themes set up for the kitchen and bedroom, calling them things like “K Campfire” and “BR Campfire” so they work with those areas rather than the whole house. I’ve gotten it all set up really well on the GUI, but I can completely forget about using my google assistants for anything except “turn all lights on” and “turn all lights off”.
Ideally, I would do something like have a Campfire theme which has all the lights. Then when I say “Turn on Campfire” to the Kitchen google assistant, then it would set the Kitchen lights to the campfire theme without affecting the others. If I do the same for the bedroom google assistant, it would set the bedroom lights to Campfire without affecting others like the kitchen.
Basically, a google assistant in each of the main zones to affect that zone without either changing the whole house, or having to remember atrocious command schemes like “Hey, Google. Tell Home Assistant to set the scene in the kitchen region to Kay Arr Campfire.”
Got any advice related to this or other tips for managing lots of rooms and spaces, particularly with voice commands? Is this what the new feature, “Areas”, will be for?