Selective Scene

A Home Assistant custom integration that enables selective scene activation: apply scenes to only specific entities or areas instead of all entities in the scene.

Motivation

Using built-in scenes with selective filtering provides several advantages:

• Scene Editor Integration: Create and modify scenes using Home Assistant's built-in scene editor UI
• Avoid Scene Duplication: Without filtering, you'd need separate scenes like scene.evening_lights_all, scene.evening_lights_living_room, scene.evening_lights_kitchen, etc. With selective scenes, one scene.evening_lights can serve multiple purposes
• Dynamic Area-based Control: Apply the same scene to different areas based on context (motion sensors, time of day, etc.)
• Maintainability: Update lighting states in one place while using them in multiple automations with different scopes

This allows you to store and manage lighting states in built-in scenes but use them more expressively in automations.

Usage

This integration provides a drop-in replacement for the built-in scene.turn_on service with the ability to activate scenes selectively. Instead of applying a scene to all entities, you can filter which entities are affected using entity IDs or areas.

Service: selective_scene.turn_on

The service accepts the same parameters as scene.turn_on plus additional filtering options:

Parameter	Type	Description
entity_id	string/list	Scene(s) to activate
transition	number	Transition time in seconds
entity_filter	list	List of entity IDs to apply the scene to (only these entities will be affected)
area_filter	list	List of area names to apply the scene to (only entities in these areas will be affected)

Examples

Apply scene only to specific entities:

action: selective_scene.turn_on
target:
  entity_id: scene.evening_lights
data:
  entity_filter:
    - light.living_room
    - light.kitchen

Apply scene only to specific areas:

action: selective_scene.turn_on
target:
  entity_id: scene.evening_lights
data:
  area_filter:
    - living_room
    - kitchen

Motion-activated lighting automation:

automation:
  - alias: "Motion activated lights"
    triggers:
      - trigger: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.motion_living_room
        to: "on"
    actions:
      - action: selective_scene.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id: scene.evening_lights
        data:
          area_filter:
            - living_room

Installation

Quick install (skip to step 5)

Manual steps

1. Open HACS in your Home Assistant instance
2. Click the three dots menu (⋮) and select "Custom repositories"
3. Add https://github.com/jpaju/selective-scene as repository with category Integration
4. Search and open "Selective Scene " from HACS repositories
5. Click "Download"
6. Restart Home Assistant
7. Go to Settings → Devices & Services → Integrations and click "Add Integration"
8. Search for "Selective Scene" and add it