Color support for light.template

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Ehlo,

I added a simple color support for template lights in order to support custom devices like those cheap IR controlled led strips or light bulbs. I made it work like a charm on my installation.

I made a pull request for the code : https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/12439/
And I also wrote documentation for the feature : https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.github.io/pull/4791

Is there any next step needed ?

It’s my first time contributing so I’m sorry if I make any mistakes :persevere:

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Hi,

Is this going to be introduced in a new release?

I think not only color would be nice, bud all the other functions for the light (Color temperature, Effect …etc)

This would be nice to to achieve this:

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Yeah it’s a shame that PR went stale. You should reopen it!

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This would make my life so much easier…pretty please, are you going to make me beg?

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please also add effect :slight_smile:

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@grea09 are you able to reopen https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/12439 so that your code can be implemented into the main home assistant branch?

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Hi guys, since several weeks I tried to make validate my PR about adding color and temperature to the light template: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/28141
I think you can take my code to create a custom component meantime.

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@tetienne Thank you for doing that, since I run hassio in unraid I just simply replace the light template module. With this, I was able to convert these awesome govee led strips into a addressable light component in hass with the help of a little node-red magic.

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Any way you could post the actual node-red code for this? Like just export the flow for us? I would really like to play with this! Thanks!

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I posted in this thread

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Just bumping this thread. I’d love to be able to use a color picker on a light template!