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title: "Zone"
description: "Instructions how to setup zones within Home Assistant."
date: 2015-10-04 09:23
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Zones allow you to specify certain regions on earth (for now). When a device tracker sees a device to be within a zone, the state will take the name from the zone. Zones can also be used as a [trigger](/getting-started/automation-trigger/#zone-trigger) or [condition](/getting-started/automation-condition/#zone-condition) inside automation setups.

Zones support the usual method to specify multiple zones, use keys `zone:`, `zone 2:` etc.

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
zone:
  name: School
  latitude: 32.8773367
  longitude: -117.2494053
  radius: 250
  icon: mdi:school

zone 2:
  name: Work
  latitude: 32.8753367
  longitude: -117.2474053

# This will override the default home zone
zone 3:
  name: Home
  latitude: 32.8793367
  longitude: -117.2474053
  radius: 100
  icon: mdi:account-multiple
```

Configuration variables:

- **name** (*Optional*): Friendly name of entry.
- **latitude** (*Required*): Latitude of the center point of the zone.
- **longitude** (*Required*): Longitude of the center point of the zone.
- **radius** (*Optional*): Optional radius in meters. Defaults to 100 meters.
- **icon** (*Optional*): Optional icon to show instead of name.
- **passive** (*Optional*): Optional boolean to only use the zone for automation and hide it from the UI and not use the zone for device tracker name.  Defaults to false. 

#### {% linkable_title Home zone %}

If no configuration is given, the `zone` component will create a zone for home. This zone will use location given in the `configuration.yaml` file and have a radius of 100 meters. To override this, create a zone configuration and name it **'Home'**.

<p class='note'>
Devices that are in the zone **'Home'** will not appear on the map in the Home Assistant UI.
</p>

#### {% linkable_title Icons %}

It is preferred to pick an icon to use for your zone. Pick any zone that you can find on [materialdesignicons.com](https://materialdesignicons.com/) and prefix the name with `mdi:`. For example `mdi:school`, `mdi:worker`, `mdi:home`, `mdi:cart`, or `mdi:castle`.

#### State

`zoning` is the state a `zone` has when it is configured. A `zone` doesn't have another state, all configured zones are `zoning` all the time