Cycle through a set of Scenes

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To give an idea of where I’m at with HA: I’ve been happily using running my system for about a year now and I am happy to tinker around with things.

I have an IKEA Styrbar remote and a set of smart bulbs with 3 scenes (cosy, watching TV, and eating) that I’d like to cycle through when I press the > button. I found a great walkthrough by Smart Home Junkie, but it’s quite old and it occurs to me that there might be a better way to achieve this in 2025.

So I have a dropdown Helper with the entity_ids of the Scenes called scene_selector:

  • scene.cozy
  • scene.watching_tv
  • scene.eating

It feels like a possible way forward is to create an Automation that triggers when I press > :

Then do:

action: input_select.select_next
metadata: {}
data:
  cycle: true
target:
  entity_id: input_select.scene_selector

This changes the state/value of input_select.scene_selector, which is nice to see.

At this point, it’d be really cool if it were possible to find a scene with the name of the current value of input_select.scene_selector, and then turn it on.

action: scene.turn_on
data:
  entity_id: input_select.scene_selector_living_room

The above doesn’t work. Is there a way to pass a variable to the scene.turn_on action? Thanks in advance!

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action: scene.turn_on
target:
  entity_id: "{{ states('input_select.scene_selector_living_room') }}"
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Also if you change your input select options to something that looks nice in a dashboard, like:

  • Cozy
  • Watching TV
  • Eating

You can still use it like this:

action: scene.turn_on
target:
  entity_id: "scene.{{states('input_select.scene_selector_living_room')|slugify }}"
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Brilliant, thanks for your help! This works perfectly and I’m delighted that, all going well, I can can add/remove new scenes to this without touching the YAML :slight_smile:

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Hi

I created a custom component that may help you.

See my comment in this thread about it: How To Cycle Through Scenes - #30 by 0x3333

Example of automation with it:

alias: TV Room - Switch 1
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.social_tv_switch_1
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: scene_sequencer.cycle
    metadata: {}
    data:
      scenes:
        entity_id:
          - scene.tv_all_on
          - scene.tv_afternoon
          - scene.tv_movies
          - scene.tv_all_off
      go_to_last_timeout: 5
mode: single

Best,

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How do es one use this? Is there a GUI? If so, where? If not, where does this code get pasted?

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The above code is an automation. You need to use the service like above using your scenes as parameter.

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Hi, I’ve been grappling with the same challenge with 6 kitchen ZHA spotlights in 2 strips (recreating Deconz scene+button functionality). With the input selector sorted, the action was the last clue needed Thanks Heaps :slight_smile:

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You can add the (entity) YAML via the GUI