Shelly RGBW2 white mode, link 2 channel

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Hello,
I’m using Shelly RGBW2 in white mode with my LED strips. White mode put the Shelly RGBW2 in a 4 channel mode (light 0,1,2,3).
My LED strips have to be powered both sides, so i’m using 2 of the 4 channel of the RGBW2 (light 0,1) for a single LED strip (one output to one strip end, one output to the other end), but I need that those 2 channel works together as one (linked, bonded).

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Is possible to achieve this result with Home Assistant configuration or should I switch Shelly to MQTT mode and go with MQTT commands?
I’d like to light my LED strips with cloud command, so this linked channel should be visible to common cloud services. Is this possible?
Thank you in advance

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Did you manage to do this?

I’m also interested, not only in turning on/off but controlling the brightness as one.
In my case, I have a led strip that is longer than it should for the RGBW2 90W limit per channel, so I just want to split it in half and connect half of the strip to each channel.

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Sure, light groups in configuration.yaml is a perfect workaround
This way:

light:
  - platform: group
    name: Luce Studio
    entities:
      - light.shelly_shrgbw2_f44425_1
      - light.shelly_shrgbw2_f44425_2

  - platform: group
    name: Luce Bagno Giorno
    entities:
      - light.shelly_shrgbw2_6f854c_1
      - light.shelly_shrgbw2_6f854c_2

  - platform: group
    name: Luce Bagno Notte
    entities:
      - light.shelly_shrgbw2_f43375_1
      - light.shelly_shrgbw2_f43375_2

Anyway, please open a ticket with Allterco and Shelly with this feature request. Mine alone is not enough

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