Hue Light Groups: Quick access to individual lights

Feature Requests
1

I would like to request an option to control individual lights within a light group. Right now the group is treated as an individual entity along side of the individual lights. If groups are treated more like a parent entity, you could access the individual lights as sub-items.

My example use-cases:
I have two lights in my living room that are generally used, but we sometimes need to turn off one of them to cut glare on the TV when watching darker content.

We also have numerous lights grouped in our kitchen and hallways and sometimes it would be nice to have just one light of the group on as a nightlight when we have guests.

2

I’m not sure what you’re asking for that’s not already there. Both directly connected through ZH/Z2M or through the Hue integration with the Hue bridge exposes the individual bulbs.

3

Does a Dashboard card, with the list of group items, match your needs?

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  state_color: true
  title: Outer doors and windows
filter:
  include:
    - group: binary_sensor.outer_doors_and_windows
      options:
        secondary_info: last-changed
  exclude: []
show_empty: true
sort:
  method: last_changed
  reverse: true

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4

@DvdNwk and @FriedCheese

Those solutions are how I’m currently getting by and I apologize for not being more clear. What I was trying to convey was having the individual lights nested within the group in the individual entity view for the purposes of not cluttering dashboard space with all of the individual light entities.

This screenshot shows my hallway group entity and below it lists all of the lights that are tied to the group as attributes. My thinking was to have all of the individual light controls listed below the main group control in a manner similar to the entities card. This way an individual light could be selected quickly by selecting the group and then the specific light directly.

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5

Alternatively, another solution would be an option to have collapsible groups in the entities cards. By default the parent group item would be shown, but an option could be selected to expand the group to show all of the child entities as well.

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6

Now I understand. Yeah, would be a cool feature. Voted.

Don’t forget to vote yourself :wink: