Cannot use ZHA group when only a single device is added to that group

[DarthSonic]

The problem

I cannot use ZHA group when only a single device is added to that group. So for example if I have a single light bulb "fooLight" in a group "fooGroup", I cannot select fooGroup in Automations or Node Red, only the fooLight directly. This is not very practical when I plan to add more devices to that group (I have to first setup the single device in automations, than chage to group if more than one device) or if I remove some device from that group (automation gets invalid if only a single device is left in group).

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.7.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

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Integration causing the issue

ZHA

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[Hedda]

FYI, this issue is also reported and discussed the the external zha library here (which zha depends on) -> https://github.com/zigpy/zha/issues/47

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[DarthSonic]

This is still not working and has major impact when you remove devices from a group that is used in multiple automations, scripts and flows and a single device is left in that group. Then you must update als references to that group to use only the single device directly.