Turn a LIGHT into a switch (or other device)

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I have a lifx z light strip that I use as emergency light. it shows up in hassio as a light as it is designed to.
I want it to be seen as something else, other than a light.
The main reason is that when I say “Hey Google, turn off all the lights” it also turns that off which I don’t want it to.

I can only find one other thread where someone asked how to do this but someone else hijacked that thread and turned it into “how to change a switch to a light”

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The only way I can think to do it would be with a template switch, but you would have to retain the light to feed it data. I guess there is no way of excluding the light from google or you would have already done that?