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?
‘turn on carl and johnny’
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Using a voice assistant (like Google assistant), these understand how to treat plurals, so if you use the same base name numbered 1 & 2 you can say: turn on the (base name) lights and both come on without having to try to define scenes or explicit device links.
I use names related to the area or object, like: entrance light, dining table light, craft area light, fan light, hallway light, tv light, desk light, bed light, reading light, kitchen sink light.
Or may be further refined by type like: night light, down light, spot light, string light, stand light, lamp, bulb, LED etc.
Hope that helps with a few ideas?
Mine are where they are stationed:
Front Door Lamp, Patio Door Lamp, Desk Lamp and Bedroom Lamp. We don’t have many obviously:)
So, left of couch as you look at it is next to front door so light there, other side, by patio, you guessed it patio light. And the rest are pretty much bland like that.
Mine are where they are stationed:
Front Door Lamp, Patio Door Lamp, Desk Lamp and Bedroom Lamp. We don’t have many obviously:)
So, left of couch as you look at it is next to front door so light there, other side, by patio, you guessed it patio light. And the rest are pretty much bland like that.
How I name things depends on what angle I’m looking at it from. Within HA, everything is named
<device type>.<room>.<location in room>.<number>
which looks something likelight.livingroom.overhead.1
.When I expose it to my voice assistant (Alexa in my case), they are usually grouped and are named something that easy to say and remember like
Livingroom Overhead
.I use groups. Office, Living Room, Bedroom, and Kitchen are all groups of multiple lights. But the lights inside the groups are all named like Bob, Karl, or Kathy or something. It works for me, but certainly isn’t for everyone. Lol
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.
You could try “north light” “east light” etc…
I named mine after where they’re pointed, such as “Sofa” and “TV”.
I primarily use groups by room and floor. Since I only ever use groups for voice, for individual lights I don’t worry about brevity. I usually describe the fixture they’re in or type of light. Like I have “Standing Lamp Top”, “standing lamp side”, “living room candle #”, “kitchen downlight #”. The only semi creative name I have is “Ziggy” for these sorta zigzaggy adjustable lamps.
I have a voice assistant in every room so it can automatically recognize what lights I mean when I say “turn off the lights”. Controlling individual lights can be a little annoying so my Living Room Left and Right lamps are just called Fred and George.
I tried to name them what we actually call them when we refer to them.
Two dozen lights named “the light”
John, Paul, George and Ringo. But really it’s just a combination of groups for daily life and then I try to name each bulb with as explicit but short as possible.
Same here except all 4 are in a ceiling fan. To turn them all on and off at the same time, I’ve named them the Fan Four.
Pete is a lone, recessed light in the corner.
Two lamps with pineapple motifs are Bob and Liz. Two lamps in bedroom are Harold and Maude.
One floor lamp is Slim "Shady“.