Hue Lights grouping disappeared

Configuration
1

I have only recently reinstalled Home Assistant in a Virtual Machine on a Synology NAS.

I re-created all my entries from scratch since my initial setup had a lot of junk floating around and I just thought it would be good to start from scratch.

I got almost everything up and running relatively quickly and I have implemented some new features now that I’m upgraded, but something that is puzzling me is that I have had an automation setup now since I did the reinstall over a week ago.

I have a Philips Hue integration and one set of lights are set up in a trio of lights.

I have had this automation:

alias: Lights Lounge Hue On/Off
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: switch.loungewallplate_lhue
action:
  - service: 'light.turn_{{ trigger.to_state.state }}'
    entity_id: light.tri
mode: single

But for some reason this morning the light.tri entity has not been available. TBH I don’t know where it came from since the three lights are called 'light.tri_1, light.tri_2, and light.tri_3`.

Somehow there was some sort of grouping of the three lights into a single: light.tri which for whatever reason has now vanished.

I have re-edited the script to make it work by adding the three entities, I just don’t understand 1) where the tri entity went, and especially 2) where it initially came from! LOL

alias: Lights Lounge Hue On/Off
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: switch.loungewallplate_lhue
action:
  - service: 'light.turn_{{ trigger.to_state.state }}'
    entity_id:
      - light.tri_1
      - light.tri_2
      - light.tri_3
mode: single
2

Read the breaking changes for 2021.3.0, there’s a note about it.

3

oh, that would explain it, I did do an update… thanks, will go and check it out :frowning:

4

Thanks @m0wlheld, I have re-enabled the group.

I’m suprised at the number of breaking changes, I think I mostly noticed because the hue entry was the last one, which means I just kept scrolling until I found it.