Groups and Brightness

Configuration
1

Hi all

I have two lots of grouped lights in my house:

group.kitchen - 4 ikea tradfri
group.bathroom - 3 ikea tradfri

I have the Home Assistant Cloud in hass.io set up, but whenever I say “Alexa, set the bathroom/kitchen lights to 80%” she replied with “Sorry this device doesn’t support that”. It will however work with just a turn on/off command. Does anybody know of a fix for this?

Thanks again :slight_smile:

2

I answered this to your other thread.

3

Thanks Argy! That would make sense, I will make some changes when at home and let you know how I got on :+1:

Thanks again :blush:

4

It didn’t work unfortunately :pensive:

5

I had to manually create the lights.yaml file which now contains this:

kitchenlight:
  - platform: group
    name: Kitchen Lights
    entities:
      - light.kitchen_light_1
      - light.kitchen_light_2
      - light.kitchen_light_3
      - light.kitchen_light_4

I’m yet to add the bathroom for testing…

I have commented out the following from my groups.yaml file:

#kitchen:
#    name: Kitchen Lights
#    entities:
#      - light.kitchen_light_1
#      - light.kitchen_light_2
#      - light.kitchen_light_3
#      - light.kitchen_light_4
#bathroom:
#    name: Bathroom Lights
#    entities:
#      - light.bathroom_light_1
#      - light.bathroom_light_2
#      - light.bathroom_light_3

When the lights were grouped in the groups.yaml file, Alexa discovered a device with the same name (Kitchen Lights, Bathroom Lights etc). She isn’t discovering this at all now.

Thanks for the help all :slight_smile:

6

The lights.yaml file is a file I created (forgot to mention) to organize my lights so I dont have to put them in my configuration.yaml. Did you specify the location of the lights in the configuration?

configuration.yaml

light: !include lights.yaml

If not, then do it and dont forget to restart HA.

7

Hi Argy

I didn’t, I recall this didn’t work for me - probably because I didn’t add the lights.yaml to the config file.

For now, I’ve cocked up…and it looks like I’ll need to start again from scratch :pensive:

So…I’ll give this a go when I start the set up again :+1:

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