Groups not working

Configuration
1

I’m new with Home Assistant, but unfortunately I have a lot of trouble in creating groups. I woul like to organize the dashboards per room. So let’s say I have one room, the bedroom. In the bedroom I have some Lifx bulbs which are named as group.all_lights entity. The groups.yaml file looks like this:

group:
 bedroom:
  name: Bedroom
  view: yes
  entities:
   - group.all_lights

The formatting doesn’t look ok here, but in the file it should be fine.

I get the following error whole the time:

Failed config
  group: 
    group: [source /home/dario/.homeassistant/groups.yaml:1]
      bedroom: [source /home/dario/.homeassistant/groups.yaml:2]
        entities: [source /home/dario/.homeassistant/groups.yaml:5]
          - group.all_lights
        name: Bedroom
        view: True

General Errors:
- Setup failed for group: Invalid config.
- Unable to setup dependencies of automation. Setup failed for dependencies: group
- Setup failed for automation: Could not setup all dependencies.
- Unable to setup dependencies of light. Setup failed for dependencies: group
- Setup failed for light: Could not setup all dependencies.

How can I fixt that?

2

Probably a config issue.
put your config (here in the forum) within triple backticks like this
```
config here
```

3 
homeassistant:
  # Name of the location where Home Assistant is running
  name: Home
  # Location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets
  latitude: **
  longitude: **
  # Impacts weather/sunrise data (altitude above sea level in meters)
  elevation: 656
  # metric for Metric, imperial for Imperial
  unit_system: metric
  # Pick yours from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
  time_zone: Europe/Zurich


# Enables the frontend
frontend:

# Enables configuration UI
config:

http:
  # Uncomment this to add a password (recommended!)
  # api_password: PASSWORD
  # Uncomment this if you are using SSL or running in Docker etc
  # base_url: example.duckdns.org:8123
  api_password: **
  ssl_certificate: **
  ssl_key: **


# Checks for available updates
# Note: This component will send some information about your system to
# the developers to assist with development of Home Assistant.
# For more information, please see:
# https://home-assistant.io/blog/2016/10/25/explaining-the-updater/
updater:
  # Optional, allows Home Assistant developers to focus on popular components.
  # include_used_components: true

# Discover some devices automatically
discovery:

# Allows you to issue voice commands from the frontend in enabled browsers
conversation:

# Enables support for tracking state changes over time.
history:

# View all events in a logbook
logbook:

# Track the sun
#sun:

# Weather Prediction
sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "myhome/dariobedroom/temperature"
    name: 'Dario Bedroom Temperature'
    unit_of_measurement: "°C"
  - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "myhome/dariobedroom/humidity"
    unit_of_measurement: "%"

# Text to speech
tts:
  platform: google

group: !include groups.yaml


automation: !include automations.yaml

light:
- platform: lifx

mqtt:
 broker: localhost
 port: 1883
 username: **
 password: **
 keepalive: 60

and

group:
  bedroom:
    name: Bedroom
    entities:
      - group.all_lights
4

light:

  • platform: lifx

The above should be double spaced…

light:
  - platform: lifx

I think that’s why all_lights is not working as I think they are auto discovered but since the yaml is wrong HA won’t discover them?

5

mqtt as well needs double spacing.

6

drop the initial ‘group’ (first line) out of your groups.yaml file?

bedroom:
  name: Bedroom
  view: yes
  entities:
  - group.all_lights
7

That’s a good catch :smiley:

8

Perfect, it worked, many thanks!

I have another question. At the moment my bedroom tab looks like this:

But I would prefer to have just one switch for the light and not three, maybe one switch named “Light”. Does anyone know how I can do that?

9

Group the lamps separately and add that group to the bedroom one.

10

Super, it worked. How can I hidden the lamps group from the home tab now?

11

https://home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/group_visibility/

Also…