How do you name your lights? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by LazaroFilm@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I’m having hard time finding names for the different lights that make sense when I ask my voice assistant to control. I end up with ceiling light, but I have more than one ceiling light, and saying Living room ceiling light is a mouthful. I tried giving funny names but I keep getting confused which is which. How did you name your lights?

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[-] tjhart85@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

Name of the room + number.

I'll give the human readable name a bit more info like if it's a fan (then it's 'Kitchen Fan 1', 'Kitchen Fan 2', etc...), but I'll usually make a group and expose the group to voice and the group would be based on the human name (Kitchen Fan). For most rooms though, I only really care about the room itself, so, "turn off the kitchen lights" is all that's really needed and that's handled by the zones.

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