How to call scenes created by scene.create in an automation?

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I am using scene.create and snapshot_entities to save the state of some entities so I can change them and restore them later. I created a script to do this, which gets passed the entities to save with snapshot_entities and a name to give the new scene created by scene.create. This works fine and the scene is created and can be recalled manually. The problem is, when I go to call the scene later in the automation, I get an error (in the UI it says the scene does not exist, and if I do it in YAML the automation disappears from the UI which I think means there is an error). I have seen so many examples of doing this so I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

automations.yaml

- id: '1678941674157'
  alias: Scene - Movie Mode
  description: Toggle movie mode on or off, save and restore light states
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
    - input_boolean.movie_mode_toggle
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
    id: mm-on
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
    - input_boolean.movie_mode_toggle
    from: 'on'
    to: 'off'
    id: mm-off
  condition: []
  action:
  - choose:
    - conditions:
      - condition: trigger
        id: mm-on
      sequence:
      - service: script.save_light_states
        data:
          snapshot_name: movie-mode-before
          lights_to_save:
          - light.living_room_lights
          - light.dreamview
      - service: light.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id: light.dreamview
      - service: scene.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id: scene.living_room_dim
      - service: light.turn_off
        target:
          entity_id:
          - light.kitchen_light
          - light.patio_door_lights
    - conditions:
      - condition: trigger
        id: mm-off
      sequence:
      - service: scene.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id: scene.movie-mode-before #this line is the problem
  mode: single

scripts.yaml

save_light_states:
  alias: Save snapshot of given lights
  description: Save passed light states to scene of passed name using snapshot_entities
  variables:
    snapshot_name: "{{ snapshot_name }}"
    light_list: "{{ lights_to_save }}"
  fields:
    snapshot_name:
      name: Snapshot Name
      required: true
      selector:
        text:
    lights_to_save:
      name: Lights to Save
      required: true
      selector:
        entity:
          multiple: true
  sequence:
    - service: scene.create
      data:
        scene_id: "{{ snapshot_name }}"
        snapshot_entities:
          "{{expand(light_list) | selectattr('entity_id', 'defined')
          | map(attribute='entity_id') | list}}"
  mode: single
2

Don’t use dashes they will be converted to underscores. So this

Should be:

entity_id: scene.movie_mode_before

3

Wow, yep that fixed it. Never would have figured that out on my own. Thanks!

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