How to configure light presets

Configuration
1

Hello,

I’ve installed HA yesterday and been getting to know the configuration. Right now I’m trying to see if I can configure a few presets/profiles per light, so I don’t have to use the color picker + brightness slider. However, I just can’t seem to get it to work. Maybe I’m completely going about this the wrong way or maybe what I want is not even possible (I know it’s possible with scenes, but I don’t want to configure multiple scenes per light). I’ve been mainly looking at the /components/light/ documentation.

So far I’ve tried this:

Added an include to my configuration.yaml:

light: !include lights.yaml

Tried to configure a single light with a single profile:

light.bureau.default:
   platform: tradfri
   friendly_name: Bureau
   profile: energize

This throws me an error:

2019-08-18 10:12:19 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Invalid config for [light]: required key not provided @ data['platform']. Got None. (See /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml, line 16). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/light/

Is this the correct way to get presets per light? If so, how do I get it to work?

2

profile is used in the light services (light.turn_on, light.turn_off) not the light configuration.

3

Thanks.

Then I guess I’m kinda missing something in how HA works. What I hope to achieve is that I get a bunch of buttons in the GUI that I can use to switch my lights to a profile. I do have the lights show up in the GUI right now (auto configuration upon install) and I can switch them, but if I want to change any light settings I have to manually pick a color and brightness. Is there any other way to set the lights through the GUI?

4

Sure, but you said you don’t want to use scenes for some reason.

5

Yes, because scenes get presented in the GUI like this:

scene

I’m looking for switches where I can set some defaults, instead of getting the color and brightness slider I get right now.

I’ve been looking at templates, but I’m not sure if those get me where I want.

6

I use drop down lists to select my scenes.
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  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: input_select.deck_scene
  action:
  - service: light.lifx_effect_stop
    entity_id: light.deck_lights
  - service: homeassistant.turn_on
    data_template:
      entity_id: >
        {% if states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Off' %}
          scene.deck_off
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Automatic' %}
          scene.deck_automatic
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Blood' %}
          scene.deck_blood
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Bright' %}
          scene.deck_bright
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Forest' %}
          scene.deck_forest
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Imperial' %}
          scene.deck_imperial
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Night Light' %}
          scene.deck_night_light
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Party' %}
          script.deck_party
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Sky' %}
          scene.deck_sky
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Under Water' %}
          scene.deck_under_water
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Watch Movie' %}
          scene.deck_watch_movie
        {% elif states('input_select.deck_scene') == 'Zen' %}
          scene.deck_Zen
        {% else %}
          scene.deck_automatic
        {% endif %}
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7

Thanks, I’ll give that a go!

8

If anybody happens upon this topic, I’ve found a card that will do (almost) exactly what I was looking for: https://github.com/tcarlsen/lovelace-light-with-profiles

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