Any hope to get hue.hue_activate_scene back?

Third party integrations
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had this nifty little Hue scene selector working with the hue.hue_activate_scene service.

Updating Hassio from 065.1 broke that in my settings (adding to several other Hue issues), first, 0.68.1 didn’t bring it back.

Is there any hope we get the hue.hue_activate_scene back, as basic functionality, using the regular scenes built into Hue ?

script:
  set_hue_scene:
    alias: Set Hue scene
    sequence:
      - service: hue.hue_activate_scene
        data_template:
          group_name: '{{ states.input_select.hue_groups.state }}'
          scene_name: '{{ states.input_select.hue_scenes.state }}'
2

This is working fine for me, do you have any errors?

3

yes, nothing happening except for 1 hue-group… all others do nothing any more with the scenes that worked just fine before.
im not the only one: "hue.hue_activate_scene" not working consistently since 0.66 · Issue #13685 · home-assistant/core · GitHub

4

Have you changed the name of the group? The group and scene name must match exactly the ones on the hub.

5

no i have done nothing but update from 0.65.1 to 68.0 and 68.1…
resulting in many Hue issues, this being one of them

6

No idea then, sorry.

7

which version Hassio do you run? Maybe I have to go back…

8

Not hassio. Homeassistant, 0.68.1 at the moment.

9

ok cool, im on Hassio, also .68.1

just for reference:






as said, hope its gets solved any time soon…:wink:

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10

I have changed my hue scenes so they are all unique & they work fine. For example previously I had…

group_name: 'Outside'
scene_name: 'Full'

group_name: "Living Room"
scene_name: 'Full'

Now…

group_name: 'Outside'
scene_name: "Outside Full"

group_name: "Living Room"
scene_name: "Living Room Full"

Also by doing this I realized that I can template the automation a step further to only use one input_select for all scenes…

- service: hue.hue_activate_scene
      data_template:
        group_name: >
          {% if states.input_select.hue_select_scene_test.state|first == "L" %}
          Living Room
          {% elif states.input_select.hue_select_scene_test.state|first == "O" %}
          Outside
          {% endif %}
        scene_name: >
          {{ states.input_select.hue_select_scene_test.state }}`
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11

that is certainly valuable, but I was simply looking to implement the standard Hue scenes, that are still there. It is because of the new Hue implementation in Hassio (asyncio) this doesn’t work anymore, and it should be reinstalled soon, i hope.

Besides that, I will have a deeper look at what you suggest here, might indeed be very nice for the adjusted user scenes.
Thanks,
Marius

12

Sorry to raise this from the dead, but I’ve noticed that hue_activate_scene works when group_name is a Hue Room or an HA light group. But it does not work if the group_name is a Hue LightGroup.