IKEA GU10 RGB (Warm and Cold White) not always setting color

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Hi all,

I recently bought some new Ikea GU10 Bulbs for my Outdoor lights.
Connection seems really good and the mesh behavior is outstanding in my case. I don’t lose connection and it reacts when I turn the bulbs on and off.

But, I do have one problem. When my automation fires, if often happens that some of the bulbs doesn’t change the color fully or just doesn’t change.

I have tried tweaking my automation with and without transition, tried with longer delays, tried using the entities directly instead of a group. I also tried dividing it up to several service calls to only a few bulbs at a time. Nothing changes. It is not always, but it happens often.

The thing is, if I only use the kelvin feature, instead of color_name, or rgb, hs and so on, then it ALWAYS changes without any issues. I could not reproduce what I was seeing when using colors.

Here is a snippet of how the action part looks like, but it is pretty straight forward.

action:
   - service: light.turn_on
     entity_id:
       - light.outdoor_spots
     data:
        brightness_pct: 25
        transition: 1
   - delay:
         seconds: 3
   - service: light.turn_on
     entity_id:
       - light.outdoor_spots
     data:
       color_name: lightcyan

Have anyone else noticed this with IKEA GU10 RGB Bulbs?

I am using the IKEA Traadfri Gateway + Integration.

Core

Version
core-2021.6.3

Supervisor

Version
supervisor-2021.05.4

Any help would be much appreciated.

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I have non-rgb IKEA GU10 bulbs and when my automations run to turn them off, I usually have one bulb that stays on. It’s always random, never the same bulb each time. I’m using the ConbeeII stick instead of the Tradfri gateway.

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Hmm, even with a Conbee Stick. I actually thought that it would have been the first answer to try something else than the original gateway.

I just find it odd, that it is only when trying to change to a color. Cold and Warm white changes every single time. Both with and without delays - and as mentioned, transitions in my automations works as well.

4

I removed the three bulbs that were causing me issues and re-paired them with the conbee stick. They worked perfectly last night.

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Hey Justin,

Just a follow up. After moving the Ikea Bulbs to the conbee stick, does your colors get set every time now?

I’m stilling having issues with the Ikea Trådfri Gateway, that sometimes when I run an automation and sets the color for xx bulbs, then some of them never switch the color.