Home Assistant with MI-BW210-999W

Hello, i’m a new poster here and new to Home Assistant. I have these terrible Merkury MI-BW210-999W “Smart Bulbs” that I decided to try to convert over to Tasmota, then swapped them to ESPhome. Everything that I can find online points to them being RGBWW bulbs, and I found a configuration that resulted in this configuration that I ended up using/tweaking some:

esphome:
  name: kitchen_light_1
  platform: ESP8266
  board: esp01_1m
  on_boot:
      priority: 755.0
      then:
        - light.turn_on:
            id: kitchen_light_1
            brightness: 100%
            red: 0%
            green: 0%
            blue: 0%
            white: 100%

wifi:
  ssid: "redacted"
  password: "redacted"
  # Optional manual IP
  manual_ip:
    static_ip: 192.168.100.1
    gateway: 192.168.1.1
    subnet: 255.255.0.0
    dns1: 192.168.1.4
    dns2: 192.168.1.3

  # Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
  ap:
    ssid: "Kitchen Light 1 Fallback Hotspot"
    password: "redacted"

captive_portal:

# Enable logging to ESPHome
logger:
  # Disable logging to serial
  baud_rate: 0

# Enable Home Assistant API
api:
  password: "redacted"

ota:
  password: "redacted"


sm16716:
  data_pin: GPIO12
  clock_pin: GPIO14
  num_channels: 3
  num_chips: 1

output:
  - platform: sm16716
    id: output_red
    channel: 2
    power_supply: rgb_power
  - platform: sm16716
    id: output_green
    channel: 1
    power_supply: rgb_power
  - platform: sm16716
    id: output_blue
    channel: 0
    power_supply: rgb_power
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_cold_white
    pin: GPIO5
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_warm_white
    pin: GPIO4

light:
  - platform: rgbww
    name: kitchen_light_1
    id: kitchen_light_1
    red: output_red
    green: output_green
    blue: output_blue
    cold_white: output_cold_white
    warm_white: output_warm_white
    cold_white_color_temperature: 6500 K
    warm_white_color_temperature: 2700 K
    color_interlock: true
    restore_mode: RESTORE_DEFAULT_ON
    constant_brightness: true

power_supply:
  - id: rgb_power
    pin: GPIO13

The problem that I have is that they don’t actually have a cool white LED as far as I can tell… (I tried Cool White on every GPIO pin that it would let me, just in case it was wired somewhere strange). hey also turn off when the temperature slider is slid all the way to cool.

I attempted setting them up as RGBW, which seemed to work somewhat… However, Google Home wouldn’t work to set them to “White” as it just kept telling me that the bulbs did not support that temperature.

While they’re configured as above I had also restricted the color range to 350-360 mireds in customize.yaml, but that had the same problem with Google Home not being able to set the temperature for “White”. Google Home also sets them to about mid-temp when turning them on, which makes also effectively makes them half brightness.

They also turn off under ~40% brightness. They really are pretty terrible bulbs.

So, I guess that the main part of my question is this… Is there a way that I can configure what Google Home is using for the “White” temperature somehow? I am using Home Assistant Core, so I don’t have Supervisor and cannot find anything for the Google Home Integration in Home Assistant. I configured that using this guide: Here

This is what the entity shows in lovelace: (they’re unavailable because the switch was off when this was taken)

Thanks in advance