Confused on how to use a template for displaying a list of scenes that I can activate

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What I want to do is add a card with all the scenes for an area and be able to activate them.

I found this great post with examples in the comments, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to insert a template into a card.

Template Select - Configuration - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

I’m guessing that I’ve got this all wrong in my head, but all I want is for a card to have a current list of all scenes for an area.

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The template doesn’t go in the card. The Template select is setup in your configuration.yaml file which creates an entity you can place in a card. Here’s a basic example of the entity from the post you linked:

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Another option would be to use a Auto-Entities custom card like:

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Thanks, the auto entities is more what I was looking for.

One question, do you know of an easy way to filter the scenes so that it only includes lights scenes? I can’t seem to find the correct property/value combination to only show those.

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How are you identifying light scenes?

If you include “light” in the entity ID or name, or give them a custom attribute, you can use a variation of the template from the thread you linked in your first post in an Auto-Entities card:

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  title: Basement Light Scenes
  show_header_toggle: false
filter:
  template: |
    {{ expand(area_entities("Basement"))
    | selectattr('domain', 'eq', 'scene')
    | selectattr('entity_id', 'search', 'light')
    | map(attribute='entity_id')
    | list }}
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Thanks for the suggestion. While it didn’t work (mainly because hue entities aren’t names in a standardized fashion), it did lead me to the solution I wanted. Which is to exclude scenes that have a naming convention that I CAN control. In this case, blinds.

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Are the scenes coming directly from the Hue integration? (I don’t have any Hue devices, so forgive my ignorance)

Using custom attributes can be a handy trick when you need a way to select entities and altering entity ids or names is out of the question.

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Yep, Hue scenes aren’t editable in any way, but my blind scenes are all me!

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