Dwains Dashboard Light Entity Error

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Hi all, I’m a little stuck with configuring dwains dashboard. I have downloaded and installed Dwains dashboard and have just started setting the rooms up but I am little stuck on a couple of bits. For some reason I can only get lights to work when I add only 1 to the room. I have created a light group which includes some switches in the config.yaml but I get a light entity error in the dashboard in every room that I have a group added. I assume there is something wrong with the group but no idea what, nothing appearing in the logs. The second issue is I have added a camera to a room but I don’t see this in the dashboard, this works in the standard lovelace dashboard.

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So I have got the groups to work but they act as a single light in the dashboard. The only way they work currently is if I add them to the rooms.yaml as light.living_room_group rather than group.living_room.group. I assume this means that my grouping is correct in the HA config.yaml and I must have gone wrong somewhere with the dwains dashboard config.

3

Removed the groups from the config.yaml and added to the groups.yaml instead but now get an error along the lines of invalid config for group expected a dictionary for dictionary value. I have group !include groups.yaml in my config but I get an error at this line when I check configuration.

4

So turns out I was doing the groups wrong. Added to the groups.yaml file restarted and everything picked up correctly from the dashboard. An example below of what I should have been doing.

living_room:
      name: "living_room_light_group"
      entities:
        - light.living_room_light1
        - light.living_room_light2
        - light.living_room_light3
        - light.living_room_light1
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Hi @gmain, I am confused as I have the same issue.

Salon_lights:
  name: Salon
  entities:
    - light.love
    - light.hue_filament_bulb_1
    - light.strip_sdb

And in rooms.yaml :

- name: Salon

    icon: mdi:sofa

    light: group.Salon_lights

    climate: climate.thermostatic_salon_droit_2

    humidity: sensor.air_quality_salon_humidity

    safety: binary_sensor.air_quality_salon_home_health_volatile_organic_compound_level

    media_player: media_player.family_room

But I get a light entity error : image

6

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Do you have the below in your configuration.yaml?

group: !include groups.yaml

7

This otherwise looks the same as mine. Have you restarted the Groups configuration in Yaml reloading? If so are you able to add the group to a standard HA dashboard?

8

Try changing from capitals to lower case ie, from light: group.Salon_lights to light: group.salon_lights

I was having the same issue - I made the above change and it now works.