Been struggling for a good 4-5 days, and im getting there, just a couple small things I think you all could really help eaisly with

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Hey everyone. I started with a bunch of tuya plugs and lights, did a tuya convert, had a ton of trouble getting everything to show up right in home assistant, but finally after so many resets and open tabs, I got basically everything showing up as a device.

I have 4 RGBWW bulbs on my fan above me, and I cant seem to just make them into a group, so I can control them all at once, I have to make a scene and select the on/off, brightness.color etc for each one…

I tried in the groups.yaml file to make a simple group, following some of the demo configs, and the documentation for groups, but the log screamed at me about how I did something wrong…

Can I use MQTT? to just send a command to all 4 of them if i want to change all 4?, how would I do that? If i wanted to make them a group how would I do that? I went in and did

group:
entityid: fan light 1
entityid: fan light 1
entityid: fan light 1
entityid: fan light 1

seems simple enough… (they were 1-4, anc actually all have different names.

Also I have 3 WLED Strips. - They have a great way it seems to control them through:

“HTTP request API” https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/wiki/HTTP-request-API

Is there any way to do this from home assistant? through MQTT? through node red? i searched addons for http, but im a noob, so i dont konw where to start.

If i cant do that, what the best way to control groups of things with mqtt, I koow its not hard, I just am not grasping the last bit of how mqtt works it seems.

Thanks.

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use the platform group if you want to control all at once click here for an example
on light.yaml file just put this

light:
  - platform: group
    name: Fan Lights
    entities:
      - light.fan light 1
      - light.fan light 1
      - light.fan light 1
      - light.fan light 1
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