Scene Help

Configuration
1

Hi All,

I have been migrating all my lights over from my Wink Hub 2 directly to HA. I am trying to recreate the scenes I had in my Wink App. Here’s what I have done:

I created a scene.yaml then linked it to my config.yaml with the following:
scene: !include scene.yaml (I believe this is a way of keeping the config.yaml clean)

In the scene.yaml I have 2 entries but I can only see the 2nd when I restart HA.

name: Office Warm
entities:
light.office_table:
state: true
kelvin: 2700
brightness_pct: 50
light.office_lamp:
state: true
kelvin: 2700
brightness_pct: 50

name: Office Daylight
entities:
light.office_table:
state: true
kelvin: 5000
brightness_pct: 100
light.office_lamp:
state: true
kelvin: 5000
brightness_pct: 100

When I added the 1st scene on it’s own it worked. Have I got the formatting wrong? I thought I would start with something simple lol

2

The code needs to be formatted so we can see how it looks in your file. Look at the blue section at the top of the page for an example.

Paste > select > click

3

Sorry about that, I did copy it directly from notepad ++ but it didn’t retain the formatting. I have been trying different names that is why it’s different from what I posted just now

image

4

It will never retain the formatting. There is an example at the top of the page for future reference.

Each scene will need a ‘-’ to seperate them.

5

I think you might have to have a - infront of each one’s name?

I’m using scene: !include_dir_merge_list Scenes/ and have a Scenes.yaml in there, which contains:

- name: going_to_bed
  entities:
    XXXXX
    
- name: movie
  entities:
    XXXXX

Etc.

6

I do not believe light has an attribute called state

7

Use three “`” marks at the start and end of your code blocks

```
CODE
```

will be formatted as

CODE
8

It might not, but I use this in a few of my scenes, and it works:

light.inovelli_nzw31_dimmer_level_2:
      state: true
      brightness: 30
9

This works without issues
image
If I put the following I get an error when I check the config
image

Sorry if I am being a tad stupid here, I am on a steep learnng curve lol

10

That formatting still isn’t quite right. Take a look at the formatting in this scenes file.

After you put - name: XXX everything else must be indented by two spaces to follow the pattern (since - adds two spaces).

Yours would look like this:

image

11

OK let me give it another try

Thank you for the help

12

Success ! It was the formatting after all

Thank you, I have accomplished a great deal in the last 2 weeks and learnt even more thanks to this great community.

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13

I’ve used Notepad++ for many years and still use it for general text editing. However, for editing Home Assistant’s configuration files, I’ve switched to Visual Studio Code. I suggest you consider using it as well to make life easier when configuring Home Assistant.

There are many plugins available. I use one to check YAML formatting (YAML Language Support) and another specifically designed for Home Assistant called Home Assistant Config Helper

Here are your scenes with all indentation errors underlined with a wavy line (that’s automatically done by the YAML checker).

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After being properly formatted the wavy underlining disappears.

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VS Code supports themes so if you don’t like the appearance of what I’m using (One Dark Pro) you can easily replace it with another theme.

14

Thank you for the tip,

I will certainly look into this. Formatting the config files is extremely important as I have learnt lol