[Solved] Issues with Nested Groups

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I’m having issues with nesting groups in Home Assistant. The first issue is that group.all_devices, group.all_switches, and group.all_lights don’t work. I have all lights and switches set to show on my home tab, but it shows up as blank. However, a custom group with 2 lights will work fine.

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I have 5 Nest Protect smoke detectors, and I want to have one main view, with each smoke detector having it’s sensors in it’s own group. However, the individual groups won’t show up in any view, and a view with just these groups won’t show up at all. In the photo above, there should be a group called “Alarms”

However, if I remove the default_view part of the groups.yaml, 3 of the 5 nest protect groupings show up fine, and the all_lights and all_switches groups show up, minus the 2 lights already in a group, which seems odd.

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Here is my groups.yaml

bedroom:
    view: yes
    name: Bedroom
    entities:
      - media_player.keiths_home
      - group.bedroom_lights
      - switch.bedroom_outlet
      - group.master_protect
bedroom_lights:
    name: Bedroom Lights
    entities:
      - light.yeelight_rgb_7811dca5f009
      - light.yeelight_rgb_7811dca60116
main_floor:
    view: yes
    name: Main Floor
    entities:
      - media_player.living_room_tv
      - light.dining_room_chandelier
keith_protect:
    name: Keith's Room
    icon: mdi:notifications_active
    entities:
      - binary_sensor.keiths_room_nest_protect_online
      - sensor.keiths_room_nest_protect_battery_health
      - sensor.keiths_room_nest_protect_smoke_status
      - sensor.keiths_room_nest_protect_co_status
cole_protect:
    name: Cole's Room
    icon: mdi:notifications_active
    entities:
      - binary_sensor.coles_room_nest_protect_online
      - sensor.coles_room_nest_protect_battery_health
      - sensor.coles_room_nest_protect_smoke_status
      - sensor.coles_room_nest_protect_co_status
erin_protect:
    name: Erin's Room
    icon: mdi:notifications_active
    entities:
      - binary_sensor.erins_room_nest_protect_online
      - sensor.erins_room_nest_protect_battery_health
      - sensor.erins_room_nest_protect_smoke_status
      - sensor.erins_room_nest_protect_co_status
entryway_protect:
    name: Entryway
    icon: mdi:notifications_active
    entities:
      - binary_sensor.entryway_room_nest_protect_online
      - sensor.entryway_room_nest_protect_battery_health
      - sensor.entryway_room_nest_protect_smoke_status
      - sensor.entryway_room_nest_protect_co_status
master_protect:
    name: Master Bedroom
    icon: mdi:notifications_active
    entities:
      - binary_sensor.master_bedroom_room_nest_protect_online
      - sensor.master_bedroom_room_nest_protect_battery_health
      - sensor.master_bedroom_room_nest_protect_smoke_status
      - sensor.master_bedroom_room_nest_protect_co_status
nest_protects:
    name: Alarms
    view: yes
    icon: mdi:notifications_active
    entities:
      - group.entryway_protect
      - group.keith_protect
      - group.cole_protect
      - group.erin_protect
      - group.master_protect
default_view:
    name: Home
    view: yes
    entities:
      - group.all_lights
      - group.all_switches

If anyone has any idea how I could go about fixing this, that would be great. Thanks!

Edit: I seem to have fixed part of it. Home Assistant seems to want you to pick either a name or an icon, and if you have both, it won’t show the group. The groups.all_devices, switches, and lights still don’t work however, so help with those would be amazing. Thanks!

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It’s because the ‘all’ groups are hidden. You need to change the visibility of the groups in the customize sections to get them to appear.

single group visibility:

homeassistant:
  ... stuff ...
  customize:
    group.all_lights:
      hidden: false
    group.all_switches:
      hidden: false

or to make all the group.all groups visible:

homeassistant:
  ... stuff ...
  customize_glob:
    "group.all_*":
      hidden: false
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Thank you so much! The all groups thing worked!