Set an entity to the previous state?

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Let’s say you have an automation to turn on the outside lights when motion is detected. After 5 minutes, you want to turn it back off. But if it was previously on then you want to set it to the previous state. What’s the best way to do that?

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Using scenes, this is incredibly simple: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/scene/#creating-scenes-on-the-fly

Basically, capture the scene using the scene.create service, make your changes to the devices and then call scene.turn_on (passing the scene id you used in scene.create).

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Great. Now we just need a scene.delete. Use scene.reload

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scene.reload and scene.turn_on are basically the same, as I understand it, but yeah, they both work.