New groups not showing children in ui

[eric10k93]

I just started playing with the new groups option in the UI to group some lights and switches.

With the old group method (that the docs say is no longer recommended), I could click on the parent group entity in the HA UI and it would open a pop-up showing all the child lights/switches. This was nice in case I wanted to control a child individually without having to have separate UI elements on my dashboard for all the children.

With the new groups, all I ever see is the parent entity.
Is there an easy way to get to the children quickly from the parent entity? I know the “group settings” shows me the children in the group, but there are still no toggles.

Is there perhaps a custom dashboard element that would replicate the old functionality?

And is anyone aware of the logic behind not just showing the child entities like the old groups used to do?

[tom_l]

As you have found, presently the only way to obtain this frontend behaviour is by using the old group yaml configuration.

You might like to vote for this feature request:

Please make helper groups behavior the same as groups created via yaml

I noticed when I create a group via helpers the behavior is different to when I create a group via the ‘old’ yaml method. When I create the same group via helpers, it only shows me the ability to control that group after clicking on it. When I create a group via yaml and click on it it shows me all the group members with the option to control every single group member. [image] It would be great if the behavior of helper groups would be the same as that of groups created the ‘yaml way’ to gi…

[eric10k93]

Thanks for the quick response! I didn’t see that feature request, I just voted for it. In the meantime, I guess I can play around with some custom card options through HACS.

[tom_l]

Yeah you can create custom pop-up cards with browser-mod:

https://github.com/thomasloven/hass-browser_mod#replacing-more-info-dialogs