Philip Hue Groups

Configuration
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I’m at a loss. I don’t usually get this way either, so I apologize if this questions has been asked and answered. I looked but didn’t find it. I’m trying to set up a group of philip hue lights. They are all part of the same fixture. I’m not sure how this is accomplished. I tried following the directions here: (https://home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/devices/), as well as directions here: (https://home-assistant.io/components/group/) and even directions here: (https://home-assistant.io/components/light.hue/). Nothing seems to work. I check the config file making sure it is valid, and then restart HA and it just doesn’t load up. It just sits there. I have the lights through the discovery component.

What I would like is to create a separate page on my HA main page for our living room and place the Thermostate information, the smoke detector information (although this one I don’t care as much about) and then have a switch to turn on and off the main light. The entities for the three switches are:

  1. light.living_room__window
  2. light.living_room__hallway
    3: light.living_room__backhall

and the entity for the thermostat is

  1. climate.boiler
  2. climate.air_conditioning

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

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Hi,

Can you post the yaml here using the code blocks as it states in the blue box above and the HA logs where it fails if there is any info in there, then we can help :slight_smile:

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You need to create the group of bulbs in the hue app (group = room in the app)
Then it will be discovered into HA as another light (with “is hue group” attribute = true).

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Are you talking about in the original hue app or the new hue app? I’ve got the new hue app and the lights are setup there as rooms. For example, when I open the new hue app, it gives me a list of rooms, such as living room, with a switch to turn on the light. This will turn on all three lightbulbs. If I were to click on the room, then I can control each room individually.

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So I did some serious research and work on this today (literally spent most of the day) and not only did I figure that out, but I figured out how to make groups and put only certain elements on the groups, as well as how to organize the configuration file to be more efficient. Thanks for offering to help but I think I have it figured out. :slight_smile:

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I spent a bunch of hours on the Hue groups thing the last couple days, too, and came up with this to get everything working efficiently

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