What am I doing wrong when trying to create groups?
It’s not giving me an entity ID. It doesn’t seem to be creating an entity with the group.
How do you proceed exactly?
That’s what I’m kind of looking for. My groups aren’t working.
Helpers → Create Helpers → Groups → seems to be working correctly when I try to make the group.
What do I need to do differently?
Could you start all over again? Delete all these group, create only one with two lights for instance and then see if you can switch on/off those 2 lights. There is really pretty straightforward, I don’t understand what is the difficulty.
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I don’t blame you…I don’t understand what the difficulty is either. 
That’s what I’m trying to find out.
That’s another thing, I have no delete option. Since it’s not making the group as an entity (I assume), there is no way to delete it. No gear icon. No delete button. What I’m doing is removing all members from the group and saving the configuration, then reloading the configuration. That seemed to work.
Have you tried reloading the page after creation? I sometimes see this when creating helpers because the list updates before the helper gets its id and status. So the items seems broken, even when trying to edit, until you do a reload of the list.
Yes. Reload and also restarting HA.
I’m restarting HA now. Going to post a screen by screen flow of the process. Maybe you guys can find what I’m doing incorrectly. Appreciate all the help.
Okay, here’s what I’m doing…
Create Helper → Group
Light Group
I want to add all the WLED bulbs in my overhead light.
After hitting submit, here’s what I have.
I restart HA and get this error.
Here’s what the logs say…
I have this in my main config.yaml file
I do have a groups file but it’s empty.
I went ahead and manually added the entities to the groups file but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything.
You don’t need to create that entry in your configuration.yaml, that’s the old way and since you are doing it through the UI…
→
YAML configuration
Alternatively, this integration…
Neither putting the yaml in or doing it through the UI works.
When I click on the group, I get this.
I can submit it and it looks like it worked.
But I have no group entity. I also can not delete the group.
It complains about a notifier group, could you have a line somewhere using packages, with a groups.yaml in another folder too? Or any other place defining a notifier group? It seems like your yaml files contain errors.
Very possible. What’s the best way to go about searching for that?
Is there a line mentioning packages in configuration yaml? That might refer to a folder where more files are.
I see you commented out default_config in configuration.yaml? Then you are in charge of adding all default integrations. Why did you remove that line? I’m not sure what consequences that has. I have no experience with that.
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I think that’s it! I don’t know why it was commented out. But undoing that and restarting seems to be the answer! I now have a light group that I can control!
THANK YOU!
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