Combine a LED controller with separate switch that controls the power for the LED controller into one entity

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I have a H801 LED controller (Tasmota/MQTT) connected behind a Tasmota switch so that i can turn on/off the LED controller with the switch and having the LED controller always on (remembers it previous ON-state when powering on with the switch).

I would now like to combine these two in a way to have a new light entity which would combine the Tasmota switch as ON/OFF component and LED color controls to handle dimming, colors etc.

I’ve tried to figure out doing this on MQTT-level, but thought that it probably could be doable in Hassio with scripting? Would appreciate any pointers with this combination of two entities into one.

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For the turn on & off services use the switch, for the rest the light.

If you want a MQTT solution, maybe this also helps:

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Hi,
tried the Light Templating, but it seems that you can not use two different cmnd topics for the switch and for the RBG-controller? I have managed to get the switch working but not been able to add the second topic for the different LED-controller.
Will next try with MQTT-method by disabling the Tasmota switches actual switch funtion (always on) and just passing the tasmota swtiches switch-topic to the led controller. And then just using the led controller as is, always powered on with mains.

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I have the same situation and I am extremely annoying by it. Did you find a solution? Please help me resolve it. I dont use MQTT, I use ZHA and both physical switch and controller are connected using Zigbee SkyConnect. Thanks

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Here is the solution i got working.
The QSW is the QuadSwitch that is controlling the main power toward the Led-controller LED4.

This way i can turn on/off the LED-controlled and still have control over dimming and colors with single MovieRoomLED_ -entity.

mqtt:
light:
- name: “MovieRoomLED_”
state_topic: “LSW/stat/QSW2/POWER4”
command_topic: “LSW/cmnd/QSW2/POWER4”
state_value_template: “{{ value_json.POWER }}”
payload_on: “ON”
payload_off: “OFF”
availability_topic: ‘LSW/tele/QSW2/LWT’
payload_available: ‘Online’
payload_not_available: ‘Offline’
brightness_state_topic: “LSW/tele/LED4/STATE”
brightness_command_topic: “LSW/cmnd/LED4/Dimmer”
brightness_scale: 100
brightness_value_template: ‘{{ value_json.Dimmer}}’
rgb_state_topic: “LSW/tele/LED4/STATE”
rgb_command_topic: “LSW/cmnd/LED4/Color”
rgb_value_template: “{{ value_json.Color.split(’,’)[0:3] | join(’,’) }}”

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I think you could also use this solution
This way, you could still control the LED controller from the wall switch and do more than just turn on and off.

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Yes, similar functionality as with my solution, but with directly grouping the Tasmota devices in device-level. Straightforward solution also, thanks !