Controlling a device with direct & indirect light with HA (Calex Halo)

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Hi everyone!

I recently bought a Calex Halo ceiling light. It’s a beautiful light providing direct tuneable white and indirect RGB light. And more amazing, it’s Tuya-based! I was happy to learn that I was able to integrated easily through the Tuya integration. However, the light doesn’t behave as I expected, or maybe it behaves exactly as I expected…

This light is actually 2 different lights in one device: the direct downlight (tuneable white) and indirect ambient light (RGB). Tuya, and HA sadly discovers the lamp as 1 device with only 1 light entity. As a result, I can either set a color temperature, or a RGB and not both. I observe the following behaviour:

  • If I send light.turn_on with RGB: the indirect light turns on in red & the direct light turns off
  • if I send light.turn_on with a color temperature: both lights turn on with the correct color temperature.

What I would like to be able to do is set the direct light to a certain color temperature, and the indirect light to a RGB color at the same time. This is possible using the Smart Life app from Tuya directly, but I can’t get it done with HA.

Some ideas I’m exploring:

  • Can I somehow split the one device into 2 devices
  • Is there a way for me to send a command to Tuya that contains both an RGB value and a color temperature?

Did any of you experience something related? And/or do you have any good ideas on how I could move forward?

Thanks!

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This is the lamp’s state in HA with the following settings:

  • Direct light: CT 6535 brightness 1%
  • Indirect light: RGB [255,0,0] brightness 100%
min_color_temp_kelvin: 2000
max_color_temp_kelvin: 6535
min_mireds: 153
max_mireds: 500
supported_color_modes:
  - color_temp
  - hs
color_mode: color_temp
brightness: 0
color_temp_kelvin: 6250
color_temp: 160
hs_color:
  - 34.787
  - 4.471
rgb_color:
  - 255
  - 250
  - 243
xy_color:
  - 0.333
  - 0.336
friendly_name: Calex Smart Halo Ceiling Light 400mm
supported_features: 0

This is the state after I turn off the direct light:

min_color_temp_kelvin: 2000
max_color_temp_kelvin: 6535
min_mireds: 153
max_mireds: 500
supported_color_modes:
  - color_temp
  - hs
color_mode: hs
brightness: 255
color_temp_kelvin: null
color_temp: null
hs_color:
  - -1.003
  - 100
rgb_color:
  - 255
  - -4
  - 0
xy_color:
  - 0.701
  - 0.299
friendly_name: Calex Smart Halo Ceiling Light 400mm
supported_features: 0
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Did you get anywhere?

I sent a message to Calex support and initially it seemed they might try to help but then they stopped responding :frowning:

I really wish this was possible!

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No success so far. Would love to learn more about what Calex did to help you get further

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First they claimed you can’t switch both on at the same time, then I showed you could and asked them to contact tuya, then they stopped responding!

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Still no success here. I did manage to find a related plst though: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/163k72b/how_to_handle_both_rgb_and_w_in_calex_smart_halo/
I stopped trying for now…