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title: "Grouping your assets"
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description: "Grouping your assets makes it easier to find them and allows you to target groups in automations."
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related:
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- docs: /docs/organizing/areas/
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title: Areas
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- docs: /docs/organizing/floors/
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title: Floors
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- docs: /docs/organizing/labels/
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title: Labels
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- docs: /docs/organizing/categories/
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title: Categories
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---
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Once you have more devices, you may want to target entire groups of devices in automations. It also becomes more challenging to find items in lists.
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There are a few tools to group your assets: [Areas](#areas), [floors](#floors), [labels](#labels), and [categories](#categories).
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| Taxonomy | Automation target | Entity can have multiple |
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| -------- | -------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
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| Area | {% icon "openmoji:check-mark" %} | {% icon "openmoji:cross-mark" %} |
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| Floor | {% icon "openmoji:check-mark" %} | {% icon "openmoji:cross-mark" %} |
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| Label | {% icon "openmoji:check-mark" %} | {% icon "openmoji:check-mark" %} |
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| Category | {% icon "openmoji:cross-mark" %} | {% icon "openmoji:cross-mark" %} |
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## Area
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- Groups {% term devices %} and {% term entities %}.
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- Can be assigned to one floor.
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- Reflects a physical area (or room) in your home.
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- Can be used in automations: Allows targeting an entire group of devices with an action. For example, turning off all the lights in the living room.
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- Areas can also be used to automatically generate cards, such as the [Area card](/dashboards/area/).
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## Floor
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- Groups areas.
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- {% term Devices %} and {% term entities %} cannot be assigned to floors, but to areas only.
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- Can have multiple areas.
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- Can be used in automations and scripts as a target for actions. For example, to turn off all the lights on the downstairs floor when you go to bed.
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<img class="no-shadow" src='/images/organizing/floors.png' alt='Screenshots showing areas settings page, which now also shows the areas grouped by floor.'>
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## Labels
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- Can be assigned to areas, devices, entities, automations, scenes, scripts, and helpers.
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- Can be used in automations and scripts as a target for actions.
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- Labels can also be used to filter data in tables. For example, you can filter the list of devices to show only devices with the label `heavy energy usage` or turn these devices off when there is not a lot of solar energy available.
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<img class="no-shadow" src='/images/organizing/labels.png' alt='Screenshots showing the new labels assigned to automations.'>
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## Category
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- Groups items in a table.
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- Categories are unique for each table. The automations page can have different categories than the scene, scripts, or helpers settings page.
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<img class="no-shadow" src='/images/organizing/categories.png' alt='Screenshots the new categories. Automations are grouped into their categories, making it easier to get an overview or to filter them.'>
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