Controling mqtt light functions from automations

Configuration
1

I just configured a magichome led driver re flashed with tasmota.
Works great.

I want to set up some automations to change the lighting but can’t see any way to adjust it.

I can do a service call to turn on or off the light but can’t see how to change brightness, colour, effect, etc

Any pointers

2

I suggest you read the automation documentations. This is the first example in the action section:

Link to general automations:

The sidebar has each step in an automation.

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3

Thanks for the quick response just the pointer I needed.

4

Yeah, the documentation is all over the place if you don’t know the lingo to look for it. It was my biggest problem when I first started with this. Overtime, you’ll get the lingo and the documentation will be much more helpful to you.

5

Sorry for the revival, i know automation but just not that good enough to get say for example:

How to set the magic home effect to # 4

Could anyone help me with this?

6

What’s magic home effect?

7

Any Tasmota flashed LED device has effects such as blinking, color change etc. I’d like to use the rapid color changing one to alert when my home alarm triggers

8

do you know the attribute or service? What component

9

Is this of any use?
All the effect lines are the ones i’m talking about.
It could be called by mqtt publish i guess.
Note that i want to use it in an automation, setting it from the frontend does work.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
light:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Light 1"
    command_topic: "cmnd/light1/POWER"
    state_topic: "tele/light1/STATE"
    state_value_template: "{{value_json.POWER}}"
    availability_topic: "tele/light1/LWT"
    brightness_command_topic: "cmnd/light1/Dimmer"
    brightness_state_topic: "tele/light1/STATE"
    brightness_scale: 100
    on_command_type: "brightness"
    brightness_value_template: "{{value_json.Dimmer}}"
    color_temp_command_topic: "cmnd/light1/CT"
    color_temp_state_topic: "tele/light1/STATE"
    color_temp_value_template: "{{value_json.CT}}"
    rgb_command_topic: "cmnd/light1/Color2"
    rgb_state_topic: "tele/light1/STATE"
    rgb_value_template: "{{value_json.Color.split(',')[0:3]|join(',')}}"
    effect_command_topic: "cmnd/light1/Scheme"
    effect_state_topic: "tele/light1/STATE"
    effect_value_template: "{{value_json.Scheme}}"
    effect_list:
      - 0
      - 1
      - 2
      - 3
      - 4
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    payload_available: "Online"
    payload_not_available: "Offline"
    qos: 1
    retain: false