Automation to list all scenes in area, and add these to an input select

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Hi

I am trying to dynamically populate an input select with the names of all scenes in an area. This is to make it easy to show all in a dashboard, without having to edit it each time a scene is added.
Anyone have any idea how to accomplish such a goal. Have not found any examples, is it possible?. Not yet good enough to roll my own

Thanks

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Check Select/activate Hue scenes in new v2 Api setup - #27 by Mariusthvdb

It’s what I do to with hue scenes.

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Thanks @Mariusthvdb

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You can also use a Template Select… the following example uses an Input text helper to save the selected option. It also turns the selected scene on, but that is optional.

template:
  - select:
      - name: "Kitchen Scenes"
        state: "{{ states('input_text.selected_kitchen_scene') }}"
        options: >
          {{expand(area_entities("Kitchen"))
          | selectattr('domain', 'eq', 'scene')
          |map(attribute='name')
          | list }}
        select_option:
          - variables:
              entity: >
                {{ states.scene | selectattr('name', 'eq', option) | map(attribute='entity_id') | join }}
          - service: input_text.set_value
            target:
              entity_id: input_text.selected_kitchen_scene
            data:
              value: "{{ option }}"
          - service: scene.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: "{{ entity }}"
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@Didgeridrew thanks, that looks like more what I was thinking of. Need to digest it fully

Cheers

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@Didgeridrew this works perfectly! Thanks very much

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I am working on something very similar. I am setting up a blueprint and would like to provide a Select selector that lists all scenes in the home. Unfortunately, I can’t figure this one out based on the code above. @Didgeridrew Do you maybe have a suggestion?

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Wait - nevermind! I just realized that the scene is an entity like any other and I can just use the entity selector for this with a domain of scene.

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I’ve never touched templates before so this is my first attempt. But I’m interested in getting this to work and not having to manually input these for smart switches.

I wondered if you had an example of what you’ve configured to get this to work?

I’ve got this config so far:

configuration.yaml

template: !include templates.yaml

this is the templates.yaml file:


  - select:
      - name: "Kitchen_Scenes"
        state: "{{ states('input_text.selected_kitchen_scene') }}"
        options: >
          {{expand(area_entities("Kitchen"))
          | selectattr('domain', 'eq', 'scene')
          |map(attribute='name')
          | list }}
        select_option:
          - variables:
              entity: >
                {{ states.scene | selectattr('name', 'eq', option) | map(attribute='entity_id') | join }}
          - service: input_text.set_value
            target:
              entity_id: input_text.selected_kitchen_scene
            data:
              value: "{{ option }}"

A dropdown helper named “Kitchen Scenes”
A text helper named “selected_kitchen_scene”

Is this right?

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Please format your code block properly so we can see if there are issues.

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Thanks, edited above.

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That looks fine except for two minor things…

This configuration creates it’s own entity (select.kitchen_scenes), you do not need the dropdown/Input select Helper.

You don’t need to define the entity variable if you aren’t using the scene.turn_on function included in the original example.