Scenes on Steroids in Home Assistant - How To - Tutorial
Published at : 23 Dec 2025
With scenes, you can take snapshots of a certain status of your devices in Home Assistant. This allows you to quickly transform your house into a certain status. This is not only possible for your lighting, but for every device in your home. You can even quickly take a snapshot on the fly to jump back to the last state before your devices' settings changed. In this Home Assistant Tutorial, I show you how scenes in Home Assistant work and how you can use them to the max!
00:00 Introduction 00:52 What topics will be discussed 01:16 Set up a simple scene in Home Assistant 02:29 Add a scene to your dashboard in Home Assistant 03:36 Test the scene by clicking a button on the dashboard 03:59 How to edit a scene 04:39 Use scenes in automations in Home Assistant 07:38 Scenes on Steroids 07:55 Create a scene on the fly in Home Assistant 12:06 Test scenes on the fly