Love the new Home App in iOS10. But not seeing any support for zones. This is useful for grouping my rooms in to zones such as Upstairs, Downstairs, Basement, etc. Then controlling those zones via Siri - eg "Turn off the downstairs lights".
iPhone 6, iOS 10, Home App
The Home app does support zones (at least it does in iOS 11).
You set it up from your rooms settings. Once the zones are set you can use them with Siri. You can also assign rooms tu multiple zones (example: “first floor”, “inside”)
The simple and disappointing answer is that Home does not support zones and that there is nothing we can do about that. Apple: Nudge, nudge, wink, wink!
Unfortunately you have to resort to a third party Homekit app on the app store for that. For example the Home app by Matthias Hochgatterer http://selfcoded.com/home/. But of course there are others.
Hi - I have the Hue lights and needed to go into the "Siri Voice Control" section of the Hue iOS app and check the Rooms that I wanted to access through HomeKit. (I had previously grouped my lights into rooms with the Hue App.)
Now I can control the lights by saying, "Turn Basement lights on (or off, or blue, etc.)" and all the lights that are assigned to that Room will adjust accordingly.
Also, you could create Rooms directly from the Home App by selecting "Rooms" from the bottom navigation bar.
Hope this is helpful.
no support for home kit zones in the Home App?
