How to add rooms, zones, and scenes to your HomeKit houseTake control of HomeKit by sorting accessories into rooms, zones, and scenes.
Apple's HomeKit framework offers manufacturers a way to easily and securely hook home automation devices into iCloud, Siri, and your iPhone or iPad. If you've decided to take the plunge and you've set up a few HomeKit-compatible devices in your home, you can set up rooms and zones to control them. You can also group multiple accessories into scenes, triggered by a command word or phrase.
Name your devices, rooms, and zones
Siri understands custom names for devices, rooms, and zones (groupings of multiple rooms). Once you've named a HomeKit-enabled device, you'll be able to control it with its name, but you may also want to group multiple devices into specific rooms and zones—this lets you turn off multiple lights by saying "Turn off the lights in the Kitchen," or "Turn off the lights Upstairs," for example.
Rooms control multiple accessories, while Zones control multiple Rooms. As such, Zones are ...
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How to add rooms, zones, and scenes to your HomeKit house
