Gusten wrote:First i thought i just use lamp, door etc. So i could say turn on livingroom lamp. But you cant use same name on several devices.
Yes, that can be challenging. I use the 'easy' names for my most common things. So, for instance, I have two 'couches' that I want to control, I call one 'couch' and the other 'sofa'. Instead of calling something 'lamp' I'll instead call it 'couch lamp'.
An example of some of my devices in HomeKit:
- Couch (action to turn on both lamps on my 'primary' couch
- Couch Table Lamp
- Couch Floor Lamp
- Kitchen Ceiling
- Kitchen Fan
- Bed (master bedroom)
- Guest Bed (guest suite)
You get the idea. Another thing to consider is that Siri will also shortcut things for you, so if you have a bunch of things called something 'fan' and ask Siri to turn on or off the 'fan' then it will turn on or off all of the items with that in the name (I learned that the hard way when I turned on a ceiling an like that and every fan and bathroom fan in my house went on).
I would say that how I name things is how I see them in life - it's not the lamp, because there are so many, it's the couch lamp.