Concept of "zones"?

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Hi all. I’m new to openHAB, so I apologize if I’m not posting this question in the correct place (or if the answer is obvious).

I’m wondering if openHAB has the concept of overlapping zones.

Here’s the kind of thing I’m looking at doing…

Let’s say we have 5 lights, named L1 through L5. I would like to have two zones: Zone Z1 which includes L1, L2 and L3, and zone Z2 which includes L3, L4 and L5.

Scenario :

  • Let’s say all lights are initially off.
  • Something happens and I need to turn on everything in zone Z1, so commands go out to L1, L2 and L3 to turn them on.
  • Something happens and I need to turn on everything in zone Z2, so commands go out to L4 and L5 to turn them on – L3 doesn’t need to be told to turn on because it’s already on.
  • Something happens and I need to turn off zone Z1, so commands go out to L1 and L2 to turn them off, but nothing is sent to L3 because it is still on as part of zone Z2.
  • Something happens and I need to turn off zone Z2, so commands go out to L3, L4 and L5 to turn them off.

Any ideas on if something like this already exists? From what I’ve been reading, “groups” is not quite what I’m looking for (please correct me if I’m wrong).

Thank you for your time.

-Jon
12/30/2015

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I think traversing group items’ members in rules would be the way to go.

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See my posting about using groups like this to control my lighting in this posting. Automation/Orchestration Design Patterns

As watou says, traveesing members of groups in a rule is the way to go.

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Thank you very much for the replies – I really appreciate it. You’ve pointed me in a great direction (patterns and traversing group members).

Take care, and have a wonderful New Years!

-Jon
12/31/2015

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