WTH - Why can I not create a group in the UI that contains lights and switches?

Month of "What the heck?!"
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I would like to be able to combine light and switch entities into a group in the UI.

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Are you wanting to group them because the switches control light fixtures?

If so, there is a helper that converts switches into lights. Do that first, then you can group them.

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I have mostly switches and I would like to add a light to a group of switches and then be able to turn them on/off as a group. I know I could do this with labels, but I like the group status for my UI.

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Add a label to them and use homeassistant.turn_on service calling out the label

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What do the switches control? Are they not controlling lights of some sort?

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Old style YAML groups aupports this. But rhis is no UI but in YAML itself.

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This is how I currently do them.

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FYI, this was already called out here: WTH is there no generic group creation in UI

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Before labels— I just created a lights group and a switch group then a group of groups named all lights.