I just received 2 3rd Reality MultiFunction Night Lights. My main intent for them is to use it as a garage door alert so it will turn color (red) when the tilt sensors on either of the garage doors are opened. Then I noticed a feature that said FLASH. So I did the following and it’s not working, but if I click RUN (so I don’t overwork the garage door motor) it shows as running in the light log but it never did those actions when I look at it. I did look up the device on the web site to see what it wants for a color setting and there is really no info on there for it other than how to pair. I have tried the HEX code for red and it will not allow it to be entered, I then tried the RGB color code of 255, 0, 0 and it will only allow the entry of a numerical it will not allow commas. BUT either way it won’t flash while opened so I got to start there.
There are a couple of issues with what you have posted, mostly they stem from the your use of Device actions. The action type you show in your post is " Set value for Bathroom Night Light Start-up color temperature"… this action does not set the current color, it sets the color temperature that the light will use after the device has a power loss. This value is in mireds not HEX, RGB, etc.
Use the light.turn_on action instead of a Device action to access control over color and other attributes.
I got it to light up in red when the door is open but I need to make some time to follow the traces. A) it no longer stays in night light mode (blue) it’s shut off now. B) It does not flash but ONCE… which is OK since it stays red and let’s us know before bed that someone left the door open, which then lets us know to go to the ZOOZ relay box and close the door on our dashboard. BUT I would like to get it fixed up so it’s in night light mode all the time then turns red while open then back to blue or WHATEVER once the door is closed again.
I have them working properly now (except flashing since it seems to only cause a SINGLE flash and that’s not important to me) BUT with now with the light turn on action when the doors close the night light shuts off vs staying in it’s normal BLUE state. I would like the night lights to operate as normal, stay on as BLUE at all times EXCEPT when the door is open which would turn the lights to RED.
Would it be possible to show me how the action was used to turn on different colors with the nightlight? I do apologize. I am very new with home assistant and have only used the Device actions in a a routine. Please be as thorough as possible since I need all the guidance you can give.
The action light.turn_on can be found in the same “Add action” dialog box as Device actions, just use the “Search action” bar or manually navigate to it by scrolling down to “Light”.
Then you select the Entity, Device, Area, or Label you want to target. My suggestion would be to use the Entity. If your light accepts other settings they will become available once the target is selected.
I don’t own the 3rd Reality night light, but here is what it looks like with a different light device:
The action shown above will turn the light on if it is off and set the color to that red. If the light is already on it will just change the color. In YAML this action is configured as follows:
