Homes and rooms

Rooms

Rooms are what hold the installation together once you have more devices than you can remember.

Rooms live under My Home and do two things: they sort your devices, and they become devices in their own right — a room can be switched on, switched off and measured just like a single device.

Creating and filling a room

Rooms are created under My Home. You give the room a name and add devices to it. A device belongs to one room at a time.

Name rooms after the house, not after the hardware

Living room is a good room name. Shelly Plus 2PM #3 is not.

Rooms exist so you can find your way around your own installation a year from now, and so that whoever shares the home with you can find their way around at all. The names you pick show up in scenes, in the consumption view and in voice control — say "turn on the living room" to Alexa and it's the room name that counts.

Room consumption

If a room contains devices that measure power, its combined consumption is shown. That's the shortest route to the question "what's actually drawing power in this room?" — see Consumption.

Devices without power metering contribute zero. So a room showing 0 W doesn't necessarily mean nothing is on — it may just as well mean none of the devices can measure.

Room or group?

They look similar and are used differently:

Rooms are geography. Groups are function. See Groups.