Are scenes limited to devices only (rather than all entities?)

[jetpks]

tl;dr:

the <ha-entity-picker> is only visible if this.showAdvanced is set true (in src/panels/config/scene/ha-scene-editor.ts) -- what is this.showAdvanced and how do I set it to true?

long version

👋 Hey everyone! I'm pretty new to home-assistant. Please forgive me if this has already been answered; I did search but didn't find what I was looking for.

I'm trying to create/edit scenes that set controls on light entities created by the Groups integration. I'm able to do this by editing scenes.yaml directly, but I'm not able to do this through the UI.

It looks like the scene editor UI might only be able to control entities that are "owned by" or "children of" (not sure of the correct relationship) devices? At least that's been my experience so far.

I have the following entities:

• light.wiz_rgbw_tunable_000001 is an entity created by a device named "bar 1" from the WiZ integration
• light.wiz_rgbw_tunable_000002 is an entity created by a device named "bar 2" from the WiZ integration
• light.wiz_rgbw_tunable_000003 is an entity created by a device named "bar 3" from the WiZ integration
• light.bar_lights is an entity created by the Group integration and has no associated "device"

In the scene editor UI, I'm able to add light.wiz_rgbw_tunable_000001, light.wiz_rgbw_tunable_000002, or light.wiz_rgbw_tunable_000003 to a scene, but not light.bar_lights.

But in the yaml, it's there:

When I apply the scene after editing the yaml, it works.

I'm not super familiar with JS/TS (I'm a backend dev,) but I did look through src/panels/config/scene/ha-scene-editor.ts to see if I was missing something obvious, but it looks like entities should be supported there -- _getEntitiesDevices gets entities separate from devices, there's a <ha-entity-picker> present -- actually I'm not able to see the <ha-entity-picker> in the DOM:

It looks like the entity picker might be gated behind this.showAdvanced -- what is that, and how do I set it true?

Thanks!

[jetpks]

AH figured it out!

tl;dr: Set User > General > User settings > Advanced mode to on/true and the entity picker shows up in the scene UI.

I found this by grepping through frontend looking for showAdvanced and found:

      show_advanced_options: Boolean(hass.userData?.showAdvanced),

which tipped me off that advanced is a user attribute.

[jetpks]

I would have loved a "enable advanced mode" button in the scene editor, even if it was just a link to my current user settings, but i'm happy to be moving again either way :)