Scene to turn off all lights

[ryan2241 (Ryan)]

I am trying to set up an “Away” scene which turns off all my lights. Since the group.all_lights doesn’t exist any more, is there an easy way to have a scene turn off all lights (that I don’t have to reconfigure every time I add a light)?

[VDRainer]

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Read here:

PSA: Turn on/off all lights in Home Assistant 0.104+ (group.all_* changes)

Seeing that group.all_* was removed from states, here are some useful canned items that will get you the same result as before. Using Services to perform an action on all entities Using all inside the entity_id field will allow you to use turn everything on or off inside a domain. You just need to pair it with the correct command. This should work for pretty much every service that has entity_id. Replaces # Do not use, this is out of date. - service: homeassistant.turn_on entity_id: grou…

[ryan2241 (Ryan)]

Thanks for pointing me towards that post. A quick read says the answer to my question is: No there isn’t an easy way because scenes can’t do service calls, which is only default way of controlling all lights.

It seems to me, the easiest way is to have the script (either one you referred to here) which re-creates the group.all_lights run at start-up and use that group in the scene. But any other suggestions on easier ways would be welcome!