Twinkly LED Support

I have a few strands of twinkly lights around the house and want to incorporate them into some of my automations (someone comes to my front door have the lights blink a color or something during the day, after hours do a different color)

So far the only thing i’ve found that works and seems to be most common with other devices is the lights.on service however I cannot get that to successfully pass any color commands to the Twinkly lights

My automation includes:

service: light.turn_on
data:
  color_name: blue
  brightness_pct: 100
  rgb_color: '0,0,255'
target:
  device_id: de456ac6867041c92c287cb799

But that simply doesn’t work to change or set the color - always returns to the previous color however it will turn the lights on/off via the on or off service. Similar code like above works for Hyperion too to change other LEDs I have via the RGB or color values.

From the Dev Console for the Twinkly I can only see:

host: x.x.x.x
product_name: Twinkly
hardware_version: '100'
bytes_per_led: 3
hw_id: ebebe8
flash_size: 64
led_type: 19
product_code: TWS600STP
fw_family: M
device_name: Kitchen
uptime: '766055587'
uuid: FF5E75AE-C6A4-4BBC-95E3-9C520F
max_supported_led: 1200
number_of_led: 600
led_profile: RGB
frame_rate: 9
measured_frame_rate: 9.8
movie_capacity: 992
wire_type: 1
brightness: 255
friendly_name: T600
icon: 'mdi:string-lights'
supported_features: 1

I may be going about this entirely wrong but any help would be appreciated.

Hi @Alpha7,

The twinkly Integration doesn’t support color change. Only On/Off/Brightness

Source : https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/twinkly/

Well thank you for that. I have checked out that page a couple times but missed the part about the limited support.

Do you or does anyone know if there are ways to modify twinkly devices outside of the twinkly integration?

Looking at the Homey app, it seems that they have managed to at least add color tone to the functions. Could this maybe be explored in HA as well? I’m no developer, so I don’t know if there is some fundamental difference between Homey and HA.

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I’ve just got Twinkly lights and have integrated via the HomeKit Controller integration and that allows for HA to control colours (you can’t set effects but it’s better than the HA integration)

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I recently started using the Twinkly integration. If I turn my Twinkly lights on (or change brightness) via Home Assistant, Twinkly stops playing its playlist and reverts to the last applied effect. Are y’all seeing the same? If I turn on/off or dim via the app, this doesn’t happen.

Hmm. Found a closed support ticket addressing this.