WTH - Make Scenes Stateful

Month of "What the heck?!"
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  • Why don’t we have states for the scene entities. We should have states on the scene entity as active and idle to be able to know which scene is currently active and be able to make decisions based on that.

Probably also useful for having modes such as Home, Away and Vacation.

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This was once a feature, but was removed in 2015 (as mentioned here). Stateful scenes is not a trivial task as the values entities report may not always be consistent.

If you still want this feature, check out this HACS integration.

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Please search before posting a new WTH. Closing as a duplicate. You can vote and comment here: WTH is it hard to detect if a scene is active, or group multiple scenes as variations