Combining Lights and switches

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Hello People,

I tried to figure this out myself but I couldn’t, I have 3 lights in my backyard that two of them are z wave switchs and the other one is a tuya, what I want to achieve is having one button to turn all three lights on or off at the same time, I was able to combine the two zwave ones together in a group and name it “Backyard Lights” but i can not add the tuya to the group.

light groups

light:

  • platform: group
    name: Backyard Lights
    entities:
    • light.backyard_1
    • light.backyard
  • platform : switch
    entity_id: switch.01777782ecfabcb6eb71

This is what i have which doesn’t work

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light:
  platform: group
  name: Backyard Lights
  entities:
    - light.backyard_1
    - light.backyard
    - switch.01777782ecfabcb6eb71

If you want the switch to actually look like a light you can use this to create a new light from your switch and use that in Lovelace dashboards instead of your switch.

Also in future please format your post correctly.

3

Unfortunately this is not possible from the new UI Groups Feature anymore.

4

You can create a helper of type “Switch as X” and create a new light entity based on your switch. Then you can add this new light entity to a group (which is also available as a helper). It works just fine.

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5

That works.

Thanks!

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