Consider rooms A, B and C. Each room has a door that connects to the others (doors AB, BC and CA). Each room has a motion sensor and a light. I would like to turn on the light in a room if there is motion in that room or one of its doors has been opened. Homey supports zones to aggregate sensors th…

A device can only be in 1 zone. You can use the Virtual Devices app to add it multiple zones, by creating a VD and copying the state from the original device within a Flow.

[image] rtyle: is there a way for a device to appear in multiple zones No. [image] rtyle: I can think of would result in the creation of intermediate virtual devices that would aggregate triggers to turn on the light. Correct

IMO, Homey needs this feature. How do I request it?

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[image] rtyle: I would like to turn on the light in a room if there is motion in that room or one of its doors has been opened. Perhaps your scenario is only hypothetical, but [image] rtyle: Any solution that I can think of would result in the creation of intermediate virtual devices tha…

Thank you very much for your suggestion! I will have to play with that pattern when I get my Homey Pro next week. Of course, it would be much much simpler if sensors could be in multiple zones: When zone A active → Then turn light A on, etc.

Unfortunately I made a mistake in the blue cards. I replaced the screenprint

Consider Homey as LEGO. Using standard elements you can build your own system. Adding additional elements makes an overview of the standard elements and finding the right elements for your solution more complex. So that is why solutions you can build using standard functions are unlikely to be imple…

You should know sub-zones can activate parent zones as well, which brings you some possibilities. https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/360026209853-Using-Zone-Activity

Thanks. I was aware of that which is why my example has three rooms instead of just two.

Can a device appear in multiple zones?

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Can a device appear in multiple zones?

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