Creating Group of Power Points

Configuration
1

I’m wanting to create a group of power points that I have and have tried to follow the guidance here:

HA Groups

However, I get as far as typing in “group::” in configuration.yaml and the file editor shows an error.

Can someone please offer some guidance on this?

2

Yes, because you have two times a “:”

Can you please show your full configuration.yaml file? Is it possible that you have group: already somewhere else in configuration.yaml? What error do you get?

3

Hi. The double “::” was a typo in the post.

My config file is currently this:


# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate
 
config:
 
frontend:
  themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

device_tracker:
  - platform: bt_smarthub
    smarthub_model: 2
   
homeassistant:
  customize: !include customize.yaml

camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    name: Kitchen Cam
    input: rtsp://[email protected]:[email protected]:554/stream1

light:
  - platform: group
    name: Kitchen Spots
    entities:
    - light.spot_1
    - light.spot_2
    - light.spot_3
    - light.spot_4
    - light.spot_5
    - light.spot_6
    - light.spot_7
    - light.spot_8
    - light.spot_recess
    - light.spot_litter
   
   
group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
4

In groups.yaml you don’t type groups: again.

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5

Ah, so I need to place it in groups.yaml not configuration.yaml? Makes sense.

Thanks.

6

You can either delete the !include line from configuration.yaml, and put groups in configuration.yaml, or you can keep the !include line and have a groups.yaml. The latter is preferable IMHO.

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7

Thanks Nick

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