New User problem with grouping

Ok so I am brand new at HA and python in general so please bare with me. here is a copy of my current .yaml file

homeassistant:
  # Name of the location where Home Assistant is running
  name: Home
  # Location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets
  latitude: 25.0833
  longitude: -77.35
  # Impacts weather/sunrise data (altitude above sea level in meters)
  elevation: 0
  # metric for Metric, imperial for Imperial
  unit_system: metric
  # Pick yours from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
  time_zone: America/Nassau

# Show links to resources in log and frontend
# introduction:

# Enables the frontend
frontend:

http:
  # Uncomment this to add a password (recommended!)
  api_password: #########

# Checks for available updates
updater:

# Discover some devices automatically
discovery:

# Allows you to issue voice commands from the frontend in enabled browsers
conversation:

# Enables support for tracking state changes over time.
history:

# View all events in a logbook
logbook:

# Track the sun
sun:

# Weather Prediction
sensor:
  platform: yr

##########
# py -m homeassistant --open-ui
#########

################
##    Gear    
################

##############################
########### LED Lights ########
##############################

light:
  - platform: flux_led
    # automatic_add: True
    devices:
      192.168.1.125:
        name: TV_Light_Right
      192.168.1.126:
        name: TV_Light_Left
      192.168.1.129:
        name: Living_Room_Back_right
      192.168.1.119:
        name: Living_Room_Front_right
      192.168.1.124:
        name: Living_Room_Front_left
      192.168.1.128:
        name: Living_Room_back_left
      192.168.1.120:
        name: Tom_Bed_Light
      192.168.1.127:
        name: Lisa_Bed_Light

group:
  default_view:
    view: yes
  bedroom_lights: 
    name: Bedroom Lights
    entities: Tom_Bed_Light, Lisa_Bed_Light
  TV_Lights: 
    name: TV Lights
    entities: TV_Light_Left, TV_Light_Right
  Living_Room_Flood_Lights:
    name: Living Room Flood Lights
    entities: 
      - Living_Room_back_left
      - Living_Room_Front_left 
      - Living_Room_Front_right
      - Living_Room_Back_right
  All_Living_Room_Lights:
     name: All Living Room Lights
     entities:
      - Living_Room_back_left
      - Living_Room_Front_left 
      - Living_Room_Front_right
      - Living_Room_Back_right
      - TV_Light_Left 
      - TV_Light_Right

HA will start but gives me a notice that my group is not config’ed properly. I think im copying the tutorial right on and really dont understand what i have wrong. do i need to use the ip addresses for the lights? HA runs everything before the group section fine. Running this on a windows 7 machine with latest Python.

I don’t think you can have uppercase entity ID’s, so Living_Room_Front_right should be living_room_front_right also i think they should have switch. or light. before the name so light.living_room_front_right

one of my groups looks like this

Kitchen:
  name: kitchen
  #view: yes
  entities:  
    - switch.kitchen_led_strip_onoff
    - switch.kitchen_light
    - switch.kitchen_socket_1
    - switch.kitchen_socket_2
    - switch.kitchen_door
    - switch.kitchen_pir
    - switch.minerheater

Also it’s easier to read your code and figure out if your missing an indent or something if you format it properly for posting. To do that, highlight your code block and then press the preformatted text button in the post window:

ok thanks… i knew my post wasnt right, and looked at that but didnt click it. ill edit it.

Keith, thanks ill try that !

hmm ok that worked, at first i wasnt seeing them on the homepage as a card. i added view: on to each group and it gave me the tabs up top in the header. under each tab is all of the individual lights. what is the command to group them and control all at once. i thought if all were the same light.xxxx it would do that but i guess not.

So this is what i have

but would prefer all the tabs to be cards with a single switch (color picker) on the Home Page. clearly im missing something.

##############################
########### LED Lights ########
##############################

light:
  - platform: flux_led
    # automatic_add: True
    devices:
      192.168.1.125:
        name: tv_light_right
      192.168.1.126:
        name: tv_light_left
      192.168.1.129:
        name: living_room_back_right
      192.168.1.119:
        name: living_room_front_right
      192.168.1.124:
        name: living_room_front_left
      192.168.1.128:
        name: living_room_back_left
      192.168.1.120:
        name: tom_bed_light
      192.168.1.127:
        name: lisa_bed_light

group:
  default_view:
    #view: yes
  bedroom_lights: 
      name: Bedroom Lights
      view: yes
      entities: light.tom_bed_light, light.lisa_bed_light
  tv_lights: 
    name: TV Lights
    view: yes
    entities: light.tv_light_left, light.tv_light_right
  living_room_flood_lights:
    name: Living Room Flood Lights
    view: yes
    entities: 
      - light.living_room_back_left
      - light.living_room_front_left 
      - light.living_room_front_right
      - light.living_room_back_right
  all_living_room_lights:
     name: All Living Room Lights
     view: yes
     entities:
      - light.living_room_back_left
      - light.living_room_front_left 
      - light.living_room_front_right
      - light.living_room_back_right
      - light.tv_light_left 
      - light.tv_light_right

is there somewhere that describes the grouping functionality better than the main page here https://home-assistant.io/components/group/ ?

I would like for my Echo to call a group and control each group at once. (still haven’t dove into adding my echo or Harmony Hub yet… that looks daunting still.)

ok got it… had to take out the view:yes