Group elements have gone from the UI

Configuration
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After a recent upgrade to 107.7 all of my groups have disappeared from the lovelace UI. I found some changes in the changelog about groups, but don’t see how they relate to my setup.

I define groups in groups.yaml manually, and then use those entities in the UI. Are there any other config changes I need to do to make these work? From reading it seems like the manual definition in the groups.yaml file is an old school way of doing it, but I can’t find a way to create groups in the UI.

I read this thread which sounded related despite being for a much older version, but it didn’t help.

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Thanks for any help!

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Groups as a frontend construct have been deprecated, you can still use them in automations, scripts etc, they just won’t group your entities in the frontend. You need a lovelace card for this, like e.g. the entities card. There’s no way to configure groups through the UI (there are areas, but they don’t have a lot of functionality yet), you need to configure them in configuration.yaml.

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I’m not sure I understand.

I’m using a glance card at the moment, the config for which looks like this:

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None of my groups (entities starting with group. ) now appear in the developer > states page so I can’t confirm that automations using those groups are still working.

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You may want to focus on fixing that first because, using 0.107.6, all my groups are displayed in Developer Tools > States.

My configuration.yaml file contains this:

group: !include groups.yaml

and my groups are defined in groups.yaml (located in the config directory).

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can you please show your groups.yaml file?

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I’m also including my groups file from configuration.yaml

The groups.yaml contains:

stairs:
    name: Stairs
    icon: mdi:stairs
    entities:
      - light.stair_fairies
      - binary_sensor.stair_pir
      - binary_sensor.staircase_lower_door

as well as a number of other groups in the same format.

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So you have this in your config?

group: !include groups.yaml

Do you get any errors in the logs? Did you reboot?

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Well, this is embarrassing. Just rebooted again and it all seems to work fine now. No idea what was going on there.

Thanks @Burningstone :grinning: