Lifx colorloop in a scene

Third party integrations
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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

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

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

Thanks!

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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.

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