I’m trying to make the scene creation process part of my dashboard. After trying scene.create (and discovering it’s not creating permanent scenes), I was able to add a button to my dashboard that navigates to /config/scene/edit/new. I also used the auto-entities plugin to create buttons for all existing scenes. It’s great: other users of the dashboard can now create scenes and trigger them without going into Settings.
Now, the only part that is not great is the fact that they need to manually add every single entity they want to be part of the scene. It’s a lot of work for something that should be just “I like the lights like this, let’s save it” and be done with a few taps. There are 16 lights in the room and the whole point of scenes is to have different colors and effects on each.
They can’t use light groups because, unlike in Apple HomeKit, they do not capture individual lights. Instead, light groups are recorded as a single state that’s an average of all lights.
Is there a way to automatically populate the entities when navigating to /config/scene/edit/new? Or maybe split a group into its components in the “add entity” box?