¶ Rooms
The Rooms feature is accessible from the Rooms link on the sidebar of the hub interface. Rooms provides a simple way to categorize any number of devices into different rooms, generally intended to correspond to actual rooms in your home. This feature is relatively new and evolving, but current uses of Rooms include:
- being able to use the Rooms page itself to see devices sorted by room, according to your categories — as opposed to the Devices page with everything in one list
- seeing devices sorted by room in the Devices tab of the Hubitat mobile app (if the device type is supported by this feature; only switches, bulbs, dimmers, and similar devices are at the moment; this is sort of a simple Dashboard alternative that requires minimal setup)
- allowing some apps, including Room Lighting, to make intelligent guesses about default configuration based on what devices you have in a room
¶ Interface
The Rooms page lists existing rooms, shows devices in those rooms, allows creating new rooms, and offers several options for how the page is displayed:
- The search box (A) allows you to filter the list of devices based on search terms (rooms without matching devices will be collapsed)
- The list view icon (B) switches to list view (pictured above)
- The grid view icon (C) switches to grid view (rooms displayed as tiles; default on mobile devices, but does not offer some of the features below)
- The eye icon (D) shows or hides the device network ID, or DNI (list view only)
- The expand/collapse (E and F) icons expand or collapse all rooms, showing or hiding all devices contained in that room (list view only)
- The New Room button allows adding a room to this list
- The table (H) shows a list of rooms, plus devices contained in that room (e.g., K)
- The expand/collapse icon (J, list view only) expands or collapses that particular room, showing or hiding devices inside that room
Selecting the room name, for example, Bedroom, allows editing the name of the room, adding or removing devices from the room, and (not currently used except on this page) adding a picture of the room. Devices can also be assigned to a room directly from the device detail page. You will also be prompted to choose a room when adding a new device to your hub (but if skipped or if you want to re-assign the device to a new room, you can use either of these other methods at any time).