Storing Smart Home Codes

Hi bphagan64​! Welcome to the Community. This is an interesting question, and there are a few organizational solutions depending on your setup and preferences.

You mentioned that managing a lot of items for your devices could get unwieldy. Items are pretty flexible in terms of what you can add to or remove from them. One option would be to create an item for an area of your home or a device type, then customize the sections and fields to include the relevant information for each individual device. Here's a simple example:

Here's how that looks while editing to give you an idea of how you could move things around:

Another option, and what I'd probably do myself, is to create an item for each device, then organize them with vaults and tags. For example you could put all your device items in a Smart Home vault, then tag each item with a location and type. The vault would help keep everything in one place, and the tags would allow you to quickly look for an item related to Security, Basement, or whatever tagging scheme makes sense to you. The other advantage to making an item for each device is that you'd be able to look them up with a search, which could include search filters.

Would either of these options, or something similar, work for you? If not, could you share a bit more about your use case and what sort of features you'd like to have available? I'd be happy to pass your comments along to the team. Thanks again!