Can't create scenes in UI, don't see scenes in yaml file, I'm so lost

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Scenes not appearing....

Hi everyone, I am new so bare with me. I tried looking up on grok, other threads, general youtube. Some helped but scenes for me still aren't working.

I go to Settings> Automations & Scenes > Scenes > create the scene (something basic and simple, like "turn on my office lights" where it's 3 lightbulbs. Click "save" and I get this error that the configuration errors out and saying it could take a long time, I wait a few minutes, still spinning. I "refresh" the browser. Gone, isn't there.

I check online, and people say "make sure the "scene: !include scenes.yaml" is there... well it is!

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I go to file editor > scenes and here it is. So there is something being saved

But the scene doesn't show up in the UI !!!

So I have 2 problems:

  1. Why can't I use the UI to create scenes?
  2. Even when I do the "workaround" of "Settings"> "Developer Tools"> Actions> Create Scene> and build there, it doesn't appear in the yaml. file. I'm so confused.

What am I missing? Is there a way to delete all my scenes.yaml and do like a fresh install? Is that necessary?

help!

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If that's the entirety of your configuration.yaml file, you're missing default_config which contains a bunch of integrations.

Not sure if it's causing THIS issue, but I'm sure it's causing AN issue.

Once you add default config you can remove the cloud entry, since default config contains cloud.

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I think that did it! I now have 10 or so UI generated automations, tested them by running them manually and tested the actual automation/sequence/scene.

Thank you so much! It's sad that I spent a week trying to figure it out :slight_smile:

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