Turning on a scene directly from a Lovelace button

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I have created some scenes and would like to activate them with a tap from a Lovelace dashboard. I’ve found the documentation about calling services generally and quite a few discussions which are about activating scenes from glance cards, but I’m still stuck:

  • My first attempt was to create a button using the UI. I added a Button to a card and selected the scene as the Entity. I set the tap action to Default Action. However this pops up a dialogue with an activate button. I would like to avoid that extra step.

  • My second attempt was to set the tap action to call_service which required a little YAML, which I worked out from some of the documents and forums. Here’s my code, which results in an error message:

type: button
entity: scene.morning_full_lights
name: Full brightness v2
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: scene.turn_on
  service_data: scene.morning_full_lights

This is the error message which appears in the dashboard when the button is clicked:

Failed to call service scene/turn_on. expected dict for dictionary value @ data['service_data']. Got 'scene.morning_full_lights'

Do I need to change the syntax for the service_data? Or am I trying to do something that fundamentally doesn’t work with Home Assistant?

Any help or advice appreciated!

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You can add a scene as entity to the UI and it will be displayed by name and an „activate“ button.

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Your last line (service_data part) was wrong and that’s why it was throwing the error.

It should look like this:

type: button
entity: scene.morning_full_lights
name: Full brightness v2
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: scene.turn_on
  service_data:
    entity_id: scene.morning_full_lights
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Thank you very much, @SeanM, that has solved it!

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This helped me when trying to create a button for scene activation in Lovelace. Thanks!

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Amazing thank you!

Anyway to have it toggle off?

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There is only activate. For scenes you seem to require the opposite desired state as an additional scene for “off”

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Adding to this because I wanted to set up a button that turns on a scene from the UI Lovelace editor:

Set the tap action to ‘Call Service’.
Set the service to ‘scene.turn_on’.
Add an entity and use the auto-complete to find your scenes (start typing scene.____ and find your scene here).

Here’s a screenshot for my kitchen counter lighting:

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Im looking to do something similar but with blinds… Im basically using the same code as @SeanM, when II press the button to toggle it on, it opens the blinds, but when I toggle it off, it doesnt do anything. Id like it to close the blinds.