#Are entities recommended over devices for Scenes?

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jovial marsh
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For my automations I've taken the best-practice to be that you should prefer entities over scenes. I got that from here https://community.home-assistant.io/t/why-and-how-to-avoid-device-ids-in-automations-and-scripts/605517

Is there such a recommendation for Scenes also? Does it matter in any way?

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Why and how to avoid device_ids in automations and scripts

Background When you start writing automations, a device trigger seems the obvious choice. Everybody knows what a device is and it comes at the top of the UI dropdown list. It works… but it is certainly not a “great way to start” because it is storing up problems for the future. Far better to use an entity, with state or numeric_state. Devi...

earnest finch
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Yup. Devices can change. Entities typically don’t.

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I will say that as an “expert” (which I’m not), I generally avoid devices for anything aside from some rare UI edge cases.