Hue Groups Template

[ejpenney]

I searched the discussion and didn't find anything, figured I'd drop this in here, hopefully it'll help someone else.

Regarding Grouping Existing Light Groups, if you're using Hue to manage your light groups and don't want to create a HASS group you may have noticed the group attributes only contains the friendly_names of its members. You can get around this by replacing these lines in the examples:

{% set group_entities = expand('light.outdoor_lights') | map(attribute='attributes.entity_id') | list | first %}
{% set ns = namespace(states=[]) %}

With this:

{% set ns = namespace(group_entities = [], states = []) %}
{% for light in state_attr("light.outdoor_lights", "lights") %}
  {% set ns.group_entities = ns.group_entities + (states.light | selectattr("attributes.friendly_name", "eq", light) | map(attribute='entity_id') | list) %}
{% endfor %}

You'll be off and running. A few caveats, this assumes that the individual bulbs which are part of the group are enabled in Home Assistant, and that they have unique friendly names!

Ideally the Hue integration would give us direct access to this data, but it doesn't. I've submitted a feature request, and if you care you can go vote for it.