Changing rgb color according to owm weather forecast

Configuration
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This right here is telling you what you need to change. According to the docs, rgb_color requires a list of integers. It’s saying that you gave it a string ‘245, 245, 245’. Essentially this:

‘245, 245, 245’

vs

[ 245, 245, 245 ]

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Sorry, I wasn’t clear. The above error is the OP’s. I’m trying to change the xy_color depending on the sensor.met_office_temperature. I’ve been following this thread, this one and this one, and trying to get it to work.

Here’s my current error

Invalid service data for light.turn_on: None for dictionary value @ data['xy_color']. Got '[0.4949,0.4202]'

and this is the automation

- id: test
  alias: test
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '10:00:00'
  action:
    service: light.turn_on
    data_template:
      entity_id: light.kitchen_strip
      brightness: 200
      xy_color: > 
        {% if states.sensor.met_office_temperature.state|int >=10 %}
          [{{0.2309|float}},{{0.2889|float}}]
        {% elif states.sensor.met_office_temperature.state|int <= 2 %}
          [{{0.3542|float}},{{0.362|float}}]
        {% else %}
          [{{0.4949|float}},{{0.4202|float}}]
        {% endif %}
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floats are redundant and that jinja looks odd. You don’t need {{}} unless you are pulling the information from a variable. Because you are setting the lights directly, you should only need the number. You don’t even need to convert it to a float because you have a decimal place.

Personally, I’m starting to think that value templates don’t work for lists.

Anyways, try this out:

- id: test
  alias: test
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '10:00:00'
  action:
    service: light.turn_on
    data_template:
      entity_id: light.kitchen_strip
      brightness: 200
      xy_color: > 
        {% if states.sensor.met_office_temperature.state|int >=10 %}
          [ 0.2309, 0.2889 ]
        {% elif states.sensor.met_office_temperature.state|int <= 2 %}
          [ 0.3542, 0.362 ]
        {% else %}
          [ 0.4949, 0.4202 ]
        {% endif %}
45

Thank you for the reply, and your suggested yaml. The reason I tried floats and excessive {{}}'s was due to this post and this one. I don’t think I can use int as xy_color are decimals, so I tried floats.

Unfortunately, this is the log when I try your suggestion, so I think you might be right.

Invalid service data for light.turn_on: None for dictionary value @ data['xy_color']. Got '[ 0.4949, 0.4202 ]'

Maybe I need to do it like

{% if states.sensor.met_office_temperature.state|int >=10 %}
  {% set x as 0.2309 set y as 0.2889 %}
{% elif states.sensor.met_office_temperature.state|int <= 2 %}
  {% set x as  0.3542 set y as 0.362 %}
{% else %}
  {% set x as 0.4949 set y as 0.4202 %}
{% endif %}
['{{x|float}}','{{y|float}}']

???

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you don’t want the quotes if you were to try that. quotes turn items into a string. It’s expecting floats. The issue is that it doesn’t see that item as a dictionary value. I don’t think templates support lists, so all this is a lost cause. You’re better off creating the 3 automations.

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{% if states.sensor.met_office_temperature.state|int >=10 %}
  {% set l = [0.2309, 0.2889] %}
{% elif states.sensor.met_office_temperature.state|int <= 2 %}
  {% set l = [0.3542, 0.362] %}
{% else %}
  {% set l = [0.4949, 0.4202] %}
{% endif %}
{%- for v in l -%}
  {{ v }}
{%- endfor -%}

Just try this… make sure the for loop has the {%- and -%}. You don’t need it on the {{ v }}.