Still, it might be an interesting halfway point -- or a useful tool for designing such lighting scenarios -- to take into account where lights are on a floor pl

Still, it might be an interesting halfway point -- or a useful tool for designing such lighting scenarios -- to take into account where lights are on a floor plan. Currently, Hue lights (and WeMo switches) are the equivalent of lightswitches in a row, numbered and/or named and yet in any random order. It'd be a lot more interesting if I could control groups of switches as easily as one, without having to specify groups manually -- and the most logical way to group would be by proximity (knowing where walls are; and excluding type of lightbulb since that's often, though not always, identical). So it would make more sense to me if home automation actually cared about my home, but in the piece-by-piece approach that hasn't happened yet. I'll be writing my own software later this year to make up for it, but it'd be nice to see better, general purpose approaches, such as in the original article (with physical switches).