Its very easy to structure the building:
- Floor
- Room
- Zone
- Suffix (optional)
For a campus, a building name is still used before the floor, but this exceeds the home automation a little. 🙂
Create the floor plan previous to the installation of your home automation.
Use this notation for every entity you create. The description of a temperature sensor is named according to its location:
- Floor = ground floor
- Room = corridor
- Zone = entrance
- Suffix (optional) = temp
-> The entity in Home Assistant is named = sensor.gf_corridor_entrance_temp
The ceiling lamp in the living room on the ground floor -> Entity-ID: light.gf_livingroom_ceiling
The heating in the bath room on the upper floor -> Entity-ID: climate.uf_bath_radiator
Recommendation for the zone
If the description is not unique, use numbers in addition.
| Zone | Description |
| South / Nord / West / East | Celestial direction as orientation |
| Entrance / Exit | Room partitions as orientation |
| Ceiling / Floor / Wall / Window | Space elements as orientation |
Recommendation for suffic
If the description is not unique, use numbers in addition.
Light
| Suffix | Usage | HA – Light Configuraiton Variable |
| _onoff | Switch Light | address |
| _onoff_feedback | Light status (on/off) | state_address |
| _dim | Light dimming KNX command | — |
| _brightness | Set brightness in % | brightness_address |
| _brightness_feedback | Brightness status (%) | brightness_state_address |
Sensor
| Suffix | Usage |
| _kwh | Energy in kWh |
| _lux | Illuminance |
| _power | Power |
| _rh | Relative humidity |
| _temp | Temperature |