Can I expose a switch as a light entity in Home Assistant?

[ndbroadbent]

I've got some Zigbee wall sockets that I use to control a few on/off lights. I can use the "change device type of a switch" function in Home Assistant, but I would like to be able to do this in zigbee2mqtt.

I also run into problems when I try to add both lights and switches to a Zigbee group. zigbee2mqtt creates two groups in HA (one for the switches and one for the lights.) So I want to control them all at once, I have to manually set up a group in Home Assistant. It would be great if zigbee2mqtt could support this case so that it just creates one light group. (Even if it's just an abstraction that still controls the two Zigbee groups behind the scenes.)

Thanks!

[francisp2]

` '0x00124b0024c14b04':
    friendly_name: schuindak
    homeassistant:
      switch:
        type: light
        object_id: light
      light:
        name: lichtboven_schuindak
        value_template: null
        state_value_template: '{{ value_json.state }}'
``

[ndbroadbent]

Thanks for the reply @francisp2, yes this is what I have been doing but it's very tedious to do it for all my lights. It would be great if zigbee2mqtt exposed this as an option, so I could get it to create light entities in home assistant for some of my switch modules and wall plugs.

[Danit2]

You can change the switch in homeassistant to a light.
This works good.