To give an idea of where I’m at with HA: I’ve been happily using running my system for about a year now and I am happy to tinker around with things.
I have an IKEA Styrbar remote and a set of smart bulbs with 3 scenes (cosy, watching TV, and eating) that I’d like to cycle through when I press the > button. I found a great walkthrough by Smart Home Junkie, but it’s quite old and it occurs to me that there might be a better way to achieve this in 2025.
So I have a dropdown Helper with the entity_ids of the Scenes called scene_selector:
- scene.cozy
- scene.watching_tv
- scene.eating
It feels like a possible way forward is to create an Automation that triggers when I press > :
Then do:
action: input_select.select_next
metadata: {}
data:
cycle: true
target:
entity_id: input_select.scene_selector
This changes the state/value of input_select.scene_selector, which is nice to see.
At this point, it’d be really cool if it were possible to find a scene with the name of the current value of input_select.scene_selector, and then turn it on.
action: scene.turn_on
data:
entity_id: input_select.scene_selector_living_room
The above doesn’t work. Is there a way to pass a variable to the scene.turn_on action? Thanks in advance!
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