Organise Home Assistant Automations and Devices With These New Features

The new release of Home Assistant has got some really exciting functionality that I've been waiting for, for what seems like forever. These cool new features will help you organise your automations, devices etc far more easily than previously and making using and searching for things in Home Assistant so much easier and quicker.
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[@Byteofgeek]

So who's using these new features in home assistant then?

[@wapphigh5250]

i certainly will now I've seen yr excellent video!

[@b00573d]

Although I don’t have that many automations just yet, I’m going to start categorizing them now so it doesn’t get too out of hand!

[@Byteofgeek]

Once you start building things up whether it's automations or devices, you soon realise the need to organise it all in Home Assistant.

[@Byteofgeek]

Thanks, glad it was helpful

[@TempDemp]

Great Video ... I have about 120 Automations and 160 Devices (40 + are Zigbee). I find it difficult to find any difference between a Label and a Category. Where am I going wrong ? Your video placed your security camera's under "Label" . It could also be placed under "Category". Your inputs would be appreciated to set up my automations. Thanks.

[@Byteofgeek]

Thanks for watching. I agree with you, it seems like the categories and labels are just the same thing but I think it also makes it super flexible to configure how YOU need it. One way would be to use labels to easily define what devices are used in the automation i.e. Lighting, Sensors are labels and they're in an automation called Driveway Motion Detection which is categorised as Outdoor. Apparently this is one of the most requested features to be added to Home Assistant but I think everyone is still getting their head around the best way to use them, especially when you consider there are Areas as well.

[@KrispKiwi]

What labels are you using?

[@Byteofgeek]

I'm trying with device types at the moment, so security cameras, plugs, bulbs etc. just to see how that goes