Issues setting up my IKEA bulb and remote to work properly with ZHA

Configuration Zigbee
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I am quite new to HA and have paired my IKEA bulb and remote to ZHA using a (recommended) Sonoff Zigbee dongle.
The light control works well through Home Assistant and automations seem to be ok. However, I am wondering how I can extract one of the colours from the bulb. As the bulb and remote were bound together from the factory, pressing the left and right buttons on the remote (E1524) changes the colour/colour temperature of the (I think RGBW) bulb to some nice presets. However, when you use these buttons on the remote, HA is unaware of the change so there is no way to work out what the colour set by the remote actually is in order to use it in automations. Does anyone know how to work this out?

In addition, is there a way to unbind the remote and bulb, so that all remote signals go through HA automations, rather than immediately triggering the bulb? I have tried Settings->Devices->ZHA->select the remote->device info->manage zigbee device->bindings->select the light->unbind, but this seems to do nothing.

Thank you in advance for any help with this!

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I haven’t used the IKEA bulbs myself, but the Zigbee lighting I’m using allow for the reset of both the remote and the bulb, and once they’re added to HA separately, the remote can directly control the bulb via groups or bindings. After successful control, the bulb will report its status back to HA. You could try not using touch link to directly pair the switch and the bulb, but instead add them to HA separately and see if the remote can report trigger information to HA.

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Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I did factory reset both the bulb and the remote before pairing them to ZHA but because they are factory-bound I can’t work out how to unpair them from each other. Also, I would like to work out how to extract the colour presets which the remote triggers so that I can use them within HA. The remote is also already reporting to HA when buttons are pressed, the issue is that these button presses are also sent directly to the bulb without going through ZHA.