How to Cycle through Scenes like Hue using a Button in Home Assistant - TUTORIAL
Published at : 23 Dec 2025
Wouldn't it be great if you can cycle through scenes by simply clicking a button so that you and your partner can easily change the ambiance of your room? This is actually not very difficult to do and super handy. You only need a smart button for this like this Zigbee button, but any other button that you can connect to Home Assistant will do. This tutorial explains exactly how to create a toggle button to cycle through scenes in Home Assistant to switch between various ambiances in a room.
00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:23 Create the Scenes 00:02:32 Create our first Scene Selector 00:04:02 Create the "simple" Automation 00:06:57 Test the automation 00:07:27 Create the Select Helper for the advanced automation 00:09:11 Create the Advanced Automation 00:15:34 Disable the simple automation 00:16:00 Test the advanced automation 00:16:18 Create the dashboard card