Hello,
I now have a few hundred scenes, and I no longer remember the details of each one. So it sometimes becomes complicated to find the scene that causes a particular behavior…
Specifically today, I would like to easily find the scene or scenes that reset an MQTT device I created to track the operating time of my heat pump… And I have a few dozen scenes that act on this device.
Nothing impossible in itself, I just have to open and reread each of the scenes I tagged « heat pump ».
But is there a faster way? A ‹ grep › in the Gladys files with the MQTT device name, perhaps?
And would that be a good feature idea to add to Gladys so that it can be done without ‹ tinkering › in the files?
EDIT on 29/1/25:
the exchanges below show a way to ‹ tinker › via the Gladys API, but there was also a suggestion of a filter in the scenes. In my opinion, to be usable by anyone, that’s the solution to prioritize.
This might also be useful for finding dashboards…
And I could see a ‹ search… › button in the configuration of a feature of an MQTT device, like this:
Hi @StephaneB,
I’m open to a concrete proposal 
It would be best to have a mockup on https://whimsical.com/ for example
I didn’t use Whimsical, but I made this. Is this what you expect to clarify the idea?
on mobile the view will be too cluttered, right?
Aren’t there any other options to achieve the same result?
I see two alternatives:
- Place this in the device configuration screens, in the integration pages. But it would need to be done in several places: MQTT, Zigbee2MQTT, Hue, Netatmo, … Basically on almost all integration pages. It’s the mockup I proposed in November (just above in this thread)
- Create a ‹ Search › menu in the ‹ Settings › page that allows searching for all usages of any device
And in both alternatives, Gladys could search for all usages in scenes, but also in dashboards.
Just a second filter; I don’t think that would make things messy.
And on mobile, it would seem OK to me to have two management lines rather than a single one: device filter and tag filter on the first line, sort order and text search (with more space than today) on the second line.
I’m making a quick mockup to illustrate…
It’s always « Just one more » 
and then it’s a toolbar like a 2000s browser ^^
I’m really not convinced!
Originally, the purpose of tags was already that: to allow classifying your scenes.
I have lots of scenes too, and I’ve already sorted them by room, then if needed to be more specific, by function (ex: « Alarm », « Presence », « Voice »)
that could be an option!
Hello @StephaneB
I also confirm that I would like this feature, which would allow searching/sorting the devices used in scenes (the number of which is increasing for me…).
This request can be closed, as it seems to me that it would be more relevant in the ‹ Devices › page. See this request: Dans la page 'Appareils', lister les dashboard et scène utilisant un appareil
