It’s a bug, already fixed, will probably be in the next release.
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I ran across this thread when I updated yesterday (first time in a few weeks) and many of my icons changed colors. Not that they are unpleasant, but it was unexpected - some are improvements. What I really came here to find out is how to change them because they don’t all make sense, and it seems like the only current fix is to hack through it. I hope that HA puts in a system to change these colors easily via the UI rather than forcing us to do a lot of YAML hacks to get the job done.
Forced color changes aren’t friendly to custom UI’s, I don’t feel they should be just set for me and then done, I would rather there be an option “hey, now you can easily set icon colors via the entity setup”. RGB bulbs that are bright white that a few updates ago started being reflected in the icon was a bad decision, it should be configurable, since a white icon on a white background is impossible and I don’t like using night themes just because the software forces me to via it’s color scheme.
HA is growing by leaps and bounds daily, I think more thought needs to be put into these types of forced changes in order to consider how users would react to a forced change (and there have been quite a few of those lately) versus giving them a simple method to implement a new shiny feature themselves if they choose to.
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AFAIK, this is a bug in 2022.12.4 that is being addressed. See further back in the thread for links to GitHub. Also, this is not a perfect solution, it’s doing it’s best to address people’s concerns with the new colouring until the devs hopefully implement a more fully baked solution.
Check the solution of this post, outlines a clean and step by step way to change the colors that you’d like to. Took me 5 minutes to update my theme and get it right 
dont say I didnt try:
but I have no more time for this. Maybe someone else can pick up from where I lost motivation?
that’s applying a patch though, not what I would call a “solution”. It’s like hiding the dust under the rug. Thank goodness the problem seems to be fixed now with 2022.12.4
edit: history is still messed up so yeah it’s not fixed yet.
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Upadated to 2022.12.4 and didn’t realise what was behind the scenes
I literally did a scooby-doo double take walking out of the room when I realised my state sensors were back to their old contrasting colours 
Thanks to the devs for the speedy fix and to the mods for putting up with us 
I’m guessing you have not had a look at the state history of any of your binary devices.
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Patch/Solution. Call it what you want. However, it’s the closest thing we have to being able to tidy this up until the devs come up with a more fully baked solution to what is essentially a rushed release of a half complete new feature.
For those wondering about the climate entity icon colors Fix climate hvac action color by piitaya · Pull Request #14747 · home-assistant/frontend · GitHub 
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Yea, I saw that earlier today while fine tuning some automation thresholds for our heating switch.
It did make me chuckle a bit 
Unordered/multiple states still look fine - though I don’t think they were included in the 2022.12 release.
This is probably the only one I look at occassionally.
You can just add a unit of measurement to that to see a graph instead of that rainbow
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please people have a look. Ive been talking with Martin cs on a dedicated binary_sensor for heater, mainly because this was the outcome of a short PR discussion on an icon PR I did. was the wrong class, so (we) figured a new class for heater would be best/appropriate.
Using Plugwise myself, they’re already 3 binary_sensors that would benefit the new class.
binary_sensor.opentherm_dhw_state , binary_sensor.opentherm_flame_state and binary_sensor.opentherm_heating
An additional device_class is only considered if more integrations would use that.
So if you could, please chime in here Add device_class: heater · Discussion #841 · home-assistant/architecture · GitHub with an integration you use creating a binary_sensor for a heater like above.
As they are binary sensors that would fit under my custom device class FR nicely.
Not really on topic.
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I am also having the problem where all of my binary sensors for presence, doors, and motion are gold for both on and off, even when using your theme and automation.
Is there any way to fix these classes of sensors? It is now impossible to ever know if a door is open with any visual cues of any kind except a text alert, which is not desired, at all.
Are you running 2022.12.4 and are you talking about the icons in the dashboard, or the history graph? I am not seeing that in the dashboard, but there is a bug in the history graph in 2022.12.4, which is being addressed. I assume in 2022.12.5.
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That’s a bug, already fixed. Waiting on the release that includes it. (not in 2022.12.4) 2022.12 Color states are broken/unusable - #387 by petro
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Ohhhh, ok, great thank you! I will make sure to check the release notes and not delay upgrading to 12.5 when it is released.
@robertwigley - Yes, I was meaning the history graph (we use that heavily in our house, which I also realize is probably not quite the norm)
Thanks folks, now I know I can stop messing with it until 12.5 is pushed
Here are the release notes of the frontend to be included in 2022.12.5, out in an hour or two
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