Assume Yeelight always reachable even if hard (no power) turned off by wall switch

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Hi, I’m on Home Assistant (latest version) in python env.

In my scenario, I need my yeelights to be turned off by a wall switch (switch off electric power) that makes them unreachable.
I would like Home assisatnt always assume them present and in the “off” state even when they are off (without power).
This is because having exported them to homekits adn, if I restart the home assistant when the yeelights are without power, they disappear from homekit.

I searched the forum, on google, but found nothing about it.

Thank you very much everyone.

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I’m trying to use light template to create a virtual light to present in homekit and not real yeelight bulb. Of course i would like “virtual light” have same state and attributes to real yeelight and vice versa.
but something is wrong.
according to documentation i do:

- platform: template
  lights:
    giardino_fronte:
      value_template: "{{ states('light.yeelight_giardino_fronte') }}"
      entity_id: light.yeelight_giardino_fronte
      level_template: "{{ state_attr('light.yeelight_giardino_fronte', 'brightness') }}"
      turn_on:
        service: light.turn_on
        data:
          entity_id: light.yeelight_giardino_fronte
      turn_off:
        service: light.turn_off
        data:
          entity_id: light.yeelight_giardino_fronte

but I haven’t brightness in “virtual light”.

Also, i think trere is not possibility to manage rgb colors.

any idea?
thanks a lot.

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it’s more simple than i thinking.
i have created a group with yeelight and a dummy mqtt light always in “off” state.
i’ve exported to homekit the group light.

i hope can help someone.

thanks.