How to use a Hue Plug as a switch, not a light?

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I took the plunge and got a Hue Bridge to run some coloured lamps (all my Z-Wave stuff is module based, so dims only).

So far, so good. But I also picked up a Hue Plug with it. The intention is to use these to control more than just lights - I have a fan, warming drawer, etc that I’d like to automate, and these are a pretty cheap, non-Wifi solution for doing that.

However, Home Assistant sees them as lights. It also means Google Home sees them as lights, which they are not. I can’t just manually change them from light. to switch. as that’s not supported. Is it possible to somehow override these entities in Home Assistant to be switches?

I was thinking of creating some kind of second entity, syncing the states and then hiding this light one? But not sure how to do it. Thanks!

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You could make a template switch and use services light.turn_on and light.turn_off in the switch config:

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Thanks, this will work!

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I’m looking into the same thing. But then, they are still part of light.all, even though there is a second entity for them, right? So when I turn off all the lights, they get turned off too anyway :thinking:

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