Lost ability to change color temperature rgbw bulbs integrated through ESPHome after recent updates

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Please forgive me or move this post to a different sub-topic if I am in the wrong place. I am not sure if this breaking change came from ESPHome updates, but I suspect it was caused by HA core changes when color modes was introduced with the 2021.5 release, but that is honestly just a guess.

I am no longer able to do call service color temperature, either kelvin or mireds with my lohas bulbs that were previously working for the last 2 years after following digiblur’s tutorial to flash tasmota and then ESPHome on these RGBW bulbs. this broke my ikea 5 button lights blueprint that was working flawlessly with these bulbs for at least 6 months. I am not sure how to troubleshoot this issue and would appreciate any help I can get.

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I am not sure how to troubleshoot this issue and would appreciate any help I can get.

  • Try if it works with esphome beta 1.19 (or try the 1.19 final in two days)
  • Check the esphome issue github
  • read the recent breaking changes from ha and esphome
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I don’t see any color temperature issues or breaking changes on GitHub for ESPHome or HA, so I don’t believe my issue is addressed in the 1.19 update, but will let you know. I also am not sure if it is possible to downgrade my ESPHome once the bulbs have all been updated to the latest version I am running, but I’m pretty sure I can downgrade HA by just spinning up a new container in proxmox with an older version of HA and see if it fixes it. At least then I would know which one is to blame for the issue, or more importantly, which update breaks it.

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You can easily change the version of every esphome node and it will just continue to work with home assistant.

For the esphome Hass(io) addon there are beta and dev versions available which can used in parallel within home assinstant and all have access to the same esphome.yamls.

The configuration of the esphome hass(io) addon also to pin the version to a specific one.

Still you can also just quickly do a local pip install or deploy a docker to have various versions of esphome.

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I appreciate you taking the time to help me by answering my questions in proxmox, I am running a Home Assistant Operating System on a KVM so I can’t run pip install or update. the rest of what you said sounded helpful, but unfortunately way over my head. I don’t know how to do the rest of what you said. could you point me towards instructions or documentation to downgrade versions of ha or ESPHome or ESPHome devices?