Looks like #HomeAssistant scene.create "dynamic" scenes aren't persisted across restarts of the instance, yielding a quite annoying UX 💔

Seems this is ... intentional and documented as such? And one can't even define a "default" scene via YAML?

WTH?

@larsmb Good candidate to submit for the WTH month! Maybe you already knew/did, but here's the info: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11/30/the-month-of-what-the-heck/
The month of 'What the Heck?!' 2024

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@iamthefij Thanks! I just did exactly that - especially when frenck responded that this is not just a not-yet-implemented omission but ... intentional and by design.

WTH, turning lights off and back on again (as they were) seems to be *the* most basic #SmartHome task? Surely I'm missing something 🤔

There already also is a feature request for this that's now 3 years old. I'm very confused.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/dynamic-scenes-not-persisted-across-restarts/816011

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"Dynamic" scenes not persisted across restarts

There’s already a feature request for this (Persist scenes created with scene.create - #17 by rplaughl) but it has also made me go “WTH” this week when my report (I originally thought this was a bug 🙂 ) was closed as “this is as designed”. This also was reported as a WTH moment in 2022: Scenes created with scene.create to survive a restart This means there’s intentionally no way to reliably achieve the seemingly very simple task of “turn lights off when presence detection switch...

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