Lighting Groups with Pico Remotes

Configuration Blueprints
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Hello. I apologize for the noobie question I am about to ask.

I am a recent Home Assistant convert from Hubitat. In Hubitat, I had about 20 different lighting groups controlled with 20 different Pico remotes using their Advanced Button Controller (Advanced Button Controller (ABC) - 🚧 Developers - Hubitat).

In a nutshell, the Advanced Button Controller allows me to turn on / off light group, dim up / down the light group and use the favorite button to cycle through scenes.

I have found various pieces of blueprints in Home Assistant but am not quite familiar enough with the ecosystem to piece everything together and was curious if someone could assist me or point me in the right direction.

Thank you in advance!

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There are light groups in HA as well that are essentially lights that contain lights, and will do all the things.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
light:
  - platform: group
    name: "Kitchen Lights"
    entities:
      - light.kitchen_ceiling_lights
      - light.kitchen_under_cabinet_lights
      - light.kitchen_spot_lights
      - light.pendant_lights

You can use blueprints for such things, but for regular things this is much easier.

3

Thank you @Sir_Goodenough. I am using lighting groups in Home Assistant to great success. I guess my post is more around I don’t know how to accomplish things using Blueprints and the Pico remote and wondered if someone could steer me in the right direction.

4

Look in the blueprints exchange for your remote and see what others have come up with. Use them or start with them and build something awesome.