Light presets
A preset remembers how the lights are on right now and brings it back with one button. It can be for the whole home or for one room.
A preset is a Home Assistant scene, not a record in the app. That's why Alice, the native Home Assistant interface and automations can see it.
Save
Set the lights the way you want and save them.
| Where | How |
|---|---|
| Android, whole home | home overview → “Home presets” → “Save home state…” |
| Android, room | room card → “Room presets” → “Save room state…” |
| Web | Home → Light presets: name, “whole home” or a room, “Save current state” |
What goes into the snapshot:
- lights and light relays of the home or the room, including the ones that are off: what's off in the preset comes back off;
- for a light that's on — brightness and color or color temperature, but not both at once;
- unavailable lights are skipped. If none are available at all, the preset isn't saved.
Outlets aren't included in a preset: otherwise an evening preset would turn on the fridge, and “leaving” would turn it off.
The scene gets an id like haextra_<time>. The name can be in any language, the id doesn't depend on it.
Room or home
There is no separate “whose preset” field. If all lights of a preset are in one room, the preset is shown in that room. Otherwise — among the home presets. Scenes created outside the app and scenes of entities that aren't on the plan also end up there.
Turn on and delete
- Android: tap the chip to turn on, long-press to delete.
- Web: “Turn on” and ✕ in the preset row. The row shows whose preset it is and how many lights it has.
A preset not created by the app (Tuya cloud scenes, YAML scenes) can't be erased from here. Instead of deleting, it's disabled in the Home Assistant registry and disappears everywhere. To bring it back — in Home Assistant, “Entities”, enable it again.
Where else presets work
- Alice. Presets reach her as scenes: “Alice, turn on Evening”. A new preset reaches Alice by itself. See Homer via Alice.
- Automations. The “preset” action in the “Do” node turns on any saved preset. See the reference.
- Home file. When the home is exported as a file, presets go along with the plan.
Preset or group mode
| Preset | Group mode | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | a snapshot you saved | one of 18 ready-made modes |
| Scope | a room or the whole home | one light group or the whole home |
| Animation | none, steady light | in all except “Reading” |
| Own names | any | only from the Yandex list |
Rights
On the web, the “Home” page with presets is open only to the owner: a preset changes the home for everyone. Through the Homer server, only the owner writes scenes too.
Demo
In demo mode, a preset is saved to the made-up home and lives until you leave demo. Nothing is written to Home Assistant.