Basic organization of rooms

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Any good tips for basic organization of Vera stuff?

I currently have about 20 installed zwave devices, a few virtual devices, and about 30 scenes. Most devices are simply assigned to their respective physical room location (using ‘room’).

I plan to use a room called ‘doors’ to put all my door sensors & locks in because I like to see them all in one ‘room’, even though they are scattered. I also currently leave most user-run scenes in ‘scenes’ room. Do you put the scenes in the physical room ‘room’, or what? I also have a room called ‘test’ where I put my unfinished scenes.

And what about ‘sections’? Is it useful for maybe inside vs outside? I only have the one default section now.

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My case:
Sections: Inside and Outside
Outside rooms: front, back
Inside Rooms: everything in a physical room is placed in a Vera room: scenes and devices
Global scenes are placed in one “Global” room.

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Sure. And I have each floor in my house as a section.

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I’m terribly missing UI2’s ability to hide scenes. Now having On and Off scenes for so many devices the dashboard looks incredibly cluttered

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Agreed, would be great to be able to choose/order/hide scenes. I just wiped and re-built my Vera2 network, so was pondering room setups and usage. I had everything in various Rooms before and found it clunky to navigate.

  • I ended up creating just Interior and Exterior and storing the devices in those two.
  • Every device name is prefixed with its location: DR - Chandelier, LR - Floor Lamp, LR - TV Power.
  • I created a z_hidden Room to hold all of my automatic/timer/event based scenes.

Going to try this for a while. It seems easier to scroll through name-grouped devices than to switch pages/rooms (IMHO).

.//A.

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I save sections for Different Vera units. Each unit has it’s own rooms.

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Is room order only done chronologically, with first rooms created showing up first and last created showing up last? Is there any way to specify the order of the rooms (particularly so they will show up in that order in iVera), or at least to have them show up in alpha order?

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Often requested, never implemented…

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I’ve found it helpful to put the device or scene # in the name. A scene name of ‘accent lights off #34’ helps me find them quicker, especially when using the luua code to execute a scene. I also started a google docs spreadsheet with devices, scenes, sections/rooms to help me keep track of stuff.

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Good ideas.

I also include the id in the names: scenes, devices, rooms.

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Part of the problem is that the Smartphone interfaces all seem to treat the rooms/sections differently. I find my self selecting a room /section model that is optimized for the phone UI (iVera or HomeBuddy) versus the browser UI. If there was a scheme that worked well for both I would love to hear it…

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This scheme would be called the merger of SquareConnect and MCV… ;D

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Sounds like a good idea… :stuck_out_tongue:

But SquareConnect needs to get some color in their lives… Black and white is boring…
The the UI on the web could use the same card like paradigm maybe a cover flow like approach