Home Assistant always disables my Hue motion sensor

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Hi all,

I was hoping someone might be able to help, this problem only started with one of the latest upgrades of HA.
I’m currently on: core-2021.12.3
What I have is a simple Arduino button in my bedroom, which turns of everything when I lie down, by sending an MQTT publish to a certain topic.

I then use:

- id: '1586610136890'
  alias: Bedroom_turn everything off
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - payload: 'true'
    platform: mqtt
    topic: Topic/Bedroom
  condition: []
  action:
  - data: {}
    entity_id: all
    service: light.turn_off
  - data: {}
    entity_id: all
    service: switch.turn_off

Every morning I get up, I have to then enable the hue motion sensor manually via the Hue app.
I had this button for about 1 year already, never was a problem, but all of a sudden, it disables the hue sensor (not the entity).
Anyone an idea why or what I could improve?
The reason btw, why I use entity_id all, because groups are tedious to maintain :relaxed:

Thanks a lot for your help

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I guess this includes the Hue motion sensor …

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well, I figured as much, but how can I prevent it or make the script better?
Or is this maybe a bug that was introduced, given it never did this before?

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I don’t know if this is a bug nor if a relevant change has been introduced with 2021.12. “Hue” is mentioned alot in the Release Notes of 2021.12.

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It’s not a bug, as part of the updated hue integration you now have additional switches exposed to home assistant from hue for enabling or disabling the hue motion sensors.

So simply your call to turn off all switches is correctly turning off all switches as you asked, it just so happens to now include the hue motion sensor switches.

Maybe time to update the way you turn things off as this is a classic example of why simply turning everything off is not the best option as every time something is updated and new switches are exposed consideration needs to be given.

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@rossk Thanks for the answer, I guess it’s rather unfortunate (in my situation) that this is now become a switch too.
What would be a good practice to turn off everything I want? Is it only groups which I manually have to maintain or can you think of another way?
Thanks

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If you don’t need the switch, why not disabling it in HA?

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Thanks @arganto, I’ve just disabled it for testing and the motion sensor still works after I turn off all. What is this switch for? I thought Hue motion sensor is only a binary_sensor. What could a switch do for someone? Thanks

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To switch of the motion sensor, for whatever reasons/use-cases. :wink:

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I see, that can make sense, to turn it on or off at certain times.
Much appreciate your help guys, great :slight_smile:

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We commonly turn them off when activating scenes like movie mode, set lights turn off motion sensor etc.