Rgb_color as condition: trace and debugging unclear

[The-May]

Hi Guys,

i am currently struggling to get a simple condition in my automation working.
I currently want to achieve to get my lights from one color to another and switch between them. So for now I want to go from Red to Green to Blue (very basic)
Now i tried different approaches but lets make it simple and transit from Red → Green for now (which already does not work for me)

if:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer
    attribute: rgb_color
    state: 255, 0, 0
then:
  - action: light.toggle
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer

I already tried

state: 
  - 255
  - 0
  - 0

This is the trace when doing the above in visual editor:

but when I edit it in YAML, the trace is also negative:

This is the trace for every try:

I already looked into the forum but could not find anything related to it…do you guys have an Idea how to do this right? Thx in advance.

[Mayhem_SWE (Magnus)]

Your condition probably does not work because rgb_color actually seems to not be a list, it is a tuple. Thus you may be required to use a template condition in order to get a match.

- condition: template
  value_template: "{{ is_state_attr('light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer', 'rgb_color', (255, 0, 0)) }}"

Another possible issue is that your light does not actually have the exact rgb_color you think it has. For example, if I attempt to set one of my Philips Hue lights to [255, 0, 0] it will very briefly show that exact color in the attributes, but then for some reason it changes to [255, 43, 0]. No idea if this is because the light cannot reproduce that exact color and is algorithmically changed to what Philips/Signify deems the closest color it can do, or due to conversions to/from the light’s native XY color space.

[The-May]

This did the trick! Thx alot.
I pasted the code in case someone has the same issue.
Funfact: changing to 0, 0, 255 changes the value to 11, 0, 255 for some reason in my case.
But to be honest: i just added a “or” operator and just accepted it. (in case someone reviews the code)

conditions: []
actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: >-
              {{ is_state_attr('light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer', 'rgb_color', (255, 0,
              0)) }}
            alias: If Red
        sequence:
          - action: light.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data:
              rgb_color:
                - 0
                - 255
                - 0
              transition: 2
            target:
              entity_id: light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: >-
              {{ is_state_attr('light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer', 'rgb_color', (0, 255,
              0)) }}
            alias: If Green
        sequence:
          - if:
              - condition: template
                value_template: >-
                  {{ is_state_attr('light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer', 'rgb_color', (0,
                  255, 0)) }}
            then: []
          - action: light.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data:
              rgb_color:
                - 0
                - 0
                - 255
              transition: 2
            target:
              entity_id: light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer
        alias: If Green
      - conditions:
          - condition: or
            conditions:
              - condition: template
                value_template: >-
                  {{ is_state_attr('light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer', 'rgb_color', (11,
                  0, 255)) }}
              - condition: template
                value_template: >-
                  {{ is_state_attr('light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer', 'rgb_color', (0,
                  0, 255)) }}
        sequence:
          - action: light.turn_on
            metadata: {}
            data:
              rgb_color:
                - 255
                - 0
                - 0
              transition: 2
            target:
              entity_id: light.zha_grp_wohnzimmer
        alias: If Blue
mode: single