Hi all, I am fairly new to home assistant and still learning the way to automate my smart devices. I realized there are a lot of possibilities which makes it quite hard some time to get things the way I want it. So far try and error did the trick for me but here’s something I can’t figure it out. I…

Having just recently acquired a few Hue color lights, the problem you described intrigued me. I performed a few simple experiments using Developer Tools > Services. I tried different combinations for hs_color, and then using color_name, but the result was always the same: the light flashes (once) u…

great. thx. that did the trick. the last service call should probably be the color being used before the script went off. Is there any way to save and recall this last state? BR

[image] pete123: Is there any way to save and recall this last state? I can’t think of an elegant way to do that. The light’s current color (before you change it with the script) is not stored anywhere. Therefore the last service call in your script won’t know what color to use. The light’s h…

Would this work ? Not tried it myself, apparently you can save a state and restore it Creating scenes on the fly [image] Scenes Instructions on how to setup scenes within Home Assistant. EDIT, no not quite, only restores state and not colour

Correct. You would want the scene to store and restore attributes and it doesn’t support that.

well, for now I think I just figure out the color code being used normally and call it as a service at the end of the blinking script.

Maybe this ? [image] Python_script to save and restore switches and lights Scripts I needed a way to save the current state of some switches and lights so I could change them temporarily, and then restore them back to the way they were. Somewhat surprisingly, HA doesn’t s…

No. That python_script has to work with the same limitations. A light’s attributes, like hs_color, are only available when the light is on. The python_script saves the light’s attributes only if it is on. Here’s the relevant line: if entity_id.startswith('light.') and cur_state.state == 'on': from…

thanks for the answers. I started to set all light scenes via home assistant. This way it is actually not needed to save latest color state. for the sake of completeness, here the working code for flashing the light alias: Flash Hue Go - red 10x sequence: - data: brightness: '255' …

[image] pete123: This way it is actually not needed to save latest color state. Effectively, you’ve changed the requirements because a scene doesn’t know anything about a light’s previous hs_color. For example, let’s say the light is turned on and set to blue, then turned off. If you run a s…

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Maybe this ?