Display Automation in a Group?

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Is is possible to add an automation to a group in the same way you may add a switch or script, because I cannot get this to work?
I tried creating id’s for the automations but not sure i have correct formatting.

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yes, this works fine. please show us your groups.yaml and it should be easy to identify the problem.

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Thanks for the fast reply.

Extracts of the groups and automation files are below:

groups.yaml:

  Bedroom:
    - switch.Electric_Blanket
    - input_number.electricblanketmasterbedroom_run_time
    - script.electricblanketmasterbedroom_timer

automations.yaml:

- alias: "Electric Blanket (Master Bedroom): Automatically turn off"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: switch.Electric_Blanket
      to: 'on'
  action:
    - service: script.turn_on
      entity_id: script.electricblanketmasterbedroom_timer

Can you show me how to alter the code so that the the automation displays in the front end in the bedroom group, and not just in a group called automation. I hope that makes sense. Also, the automation has no id and works fine but I assume you may need to give it an id to display it in another group.

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The entity_id for your automation will be called something like :

automation.Electric_Blanket_(Master_Bedroom):_Automatically_turn off

You can get the exact name from the states panel in automation tools

When you have the exact entity_id you can add it as another entity in groups.yaml

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Thank you. So the group id reference was the alias of the automation.