Ikea Trådfri color temperature slider missing?

[Rombone]

Hi fellas!

To start things off - a quick disclaimer: I’m very new to home automation and Home Assistant. I do apologize if the following question is poorly stated or perhaps just dumb.

I’m running Home Assistant with the Skyconnect ZHA dongle. I’ve successfully paired a Hue sensor and a Hue bulb, and I’ve created an automation using them both. I can control the on/off, color temperature and brightness of the bulb - all good.

I’ve now purchased some new Ikea Trådfri bulbs (light.ikea_of_sweden_tradfri_bulb_e27_ww_g95_cl_470lm_light). I’d expect the same advertised controls as with the Hue bulb, meaning on/off, color temperature (white->warm) and brightness. For some reason, I only have on/off and brightness.
To be clear; I’m not using the Trådfri/Dirigera hub.

Now, I’ve done a fair bit of reading, but my lack of foundational knowledge is a bit oh a hindrance, so I’m not quite getting anywhere.

Is there some way that I could set the color temperature values, most importantly though automation? If possible, I’d also like to be able to control it through my Styrbar remote.

Thank you in advance.

[Sawtaytoes]

This happened to me twice. One, I returned and got a new one. This time, I setup the bulb, but these lights have been replaced at this point.

Here’s a comparison of the two bulbs I put in tonight:

Correct

Incorrect

I’m wondering if it’s just configured incorrectly or if the firmware is too old for ZHA. Is there a way to force it to flash a different firmware?

[Sawtaytoes]

Now I’m really leaning toward it being a Home Assistant configuration issue because both lights report the same sw_build_id which I think means firmware version:

[Sawtaytoes]

Also weird, when i tried changing this to color temperature mode, it wrote the attribute, but when I read it back, it was unchanged:

So something’s funky with this light.