Newbie question on grouping items

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Hi! Just getting started with HASS, and really loving it so far! Quite impressive!!! I have a bit of a newbie question. I am trying to find a way within the Front end of grouping lights within a card. ie: I’m using Philips Hue, and my Front Foyer has 2 x hue bulbs in it. I would like to create if possible a “sub card” that groups these two lights together, ( same for the Kitchen island example also below ) so that I can turn them on and off with 1 switch vs 2:

On that topic, I’ve searched through the forums, and maybe not well, but instead of a switch, is there a dimmer function vs a on/off command from the front end?

Thanks!

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I think if you have them both as groups you can make a new group with both of them in

-lights
name: all lights
entities:

  • group.foyer
  • group.kitchen

syntax may be off but hopefully you get the idea

Or you could put all of the lights in to one group using the light entities.

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When you put the switch on, then click on it, you have the possibility of dim the lamp.

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@shep
Delete the 2 Kitchen Island entities from the Kitchen group.
Create a Group called Kitchen Island and add them to that
example:

kisland:
  name: Kitchen Island
  entities:
    - light.hue_kitchen_island_1
    - light.hue_kitchen_island_2

Add group.kisland to the Kitchen group.

Noe you should be able to control both light with one “group.kisland” call, and they will still be in your Kitchen group.

Hope this helps!

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This helped great folks. Thanks very much! I was thinking something along those lines, then wanted to confirm! Thank you