Lifx colorloop in a scene

I have a lifx bulb in a scene that I want the effect to be in a color loop so it can loop through the colors. When I click on the scene, the light turns on but it doesn’t go into loop. It stays static. If I go to the UI and select effect_colorloop directly through the bulb, it works but the scene won’t trigger it. Here is what I have in the scenes.yaml for that scene/bulb https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/BgYvyScXsf/

The weird thing is that in the UI, the dropdown shows effect_colorloop when you select the effect but in the yaml, it gets written as effect: lifx_effect_colorloop

I also think that the issue is related to when I set the color loop in the UI, the colors change sooner than I can save the config so the color loop drop down options gets erased and never saves. However, I’m not certain

Yeah I’ve had to use scripts instead of scenes because of this.

Can you elaborate? What are these scripts you speak of and how are you applying? Can you share or show an example?

Thanks!

I can’t share code right now (on mobile).

But scenes are just interpreted scripts.

In a scene you define the state you want (e.g. a light on) and home assistant works out what services are required to achieve that state (service: light.turn_on). In a script you do the service calls yourself.

I filed this bug: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/44602