Can't create light from switch

Configuration
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I have a couple of Shelly 1 installed in my home and want to include one of them into a light group with some Philips hue products.

To do so, I first need to create a light switch based on that switch: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/light.switch/

Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be working for me.

What I did:

add light from switch

light:
  - platform: switch
    name: Schalter Küche
    entity_id: switch.schalter_kuche

add light to group

- platform: group
  name: Licht Küche und Essen
  entities:
    - light.schalter_kuche #this is the one
    - light.hue_color_pendant_up_1
    - light.hue_color_pendant_down_1

Then I restarted the HA-Server

If I check my developer tools, the light doesn’t show up, just the switch.
Screenshot 2021-04-16 093601

What I would expect is that I get an additional entity called light.schalter_kuche

Any idea why this isn’t working for me?

Thanks for your help - much appreciated :slight_smile:

2

Try using a u instead of ü in the name.

3

This is probably it.
The light might be called ligh.schalter_kueche instead. Try avoiding umlauts as some integrations might handle them differently.

4

Thanks for your inputs! I tried this, but unfortunately the issue persits.

new configuration.yaml entry (restarted HA after):

light:
  - platform: switch
    name: Schalter Kuche
    entity_id: switch.schalter_kuche

But in my entities I still only have switch.schalter_kuche, nothing else.

Does it matter where in the configuration.yaml I put this? I just put it somewhere near the end, right after the default tts entry. No indent before light:, the other indents are as shown.

5

It can be placed anywhere vertically in the configuration.yaml as log as there are no indents before light:
Do you use light: somewhere else in your config?

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Can you please take a look into the logs? (Configuration - Logs)

7

Is this in your configuration.yaml, and are you sure it’s the only light: block in that file?

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Sorry for the delay - I just got back home.

So the thing about the number of light: blocks is interesting… My configuration.yaml contains this:

light:
  - platform: switch
    name: Schalter Kuche
    entity_id: switch.schalter_kuche
  - platform: switch
    name: Schalter Esstischlampe
    entity_id: switch.schalter_esstischlampe

#some other stuff here, followed by a bunch of includes, including this:
light: !include light-groups.yaml

Could this be causing issues? If so, how should it be set up?

Regarding the logs: I can’t see anything relating to this issue. Just some warnings related to pyroute2 (whatever that is) and some errors fetching data from philips hue.

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Yes, this is the issue, you can only have one light: entry.
I set it up like this:
light: !include_dir_merge_list yamls/light/

Then I have this folder path:
config/yamls/light/
where I can put as many .yaml flies as I want into the light folder.

This is all described here:

With examples for every way to include something.

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Use light groups: here. Docs — see the paragraph starting “Nesting”.

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That did the trick - thanks everybody that helped me out here!

I went with Troon’s suggestion, simply because my setup is pretty basic and I don’t feel the need to put the light-mappings in a different file as well.