Virtual light setup in yaml

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So I’ve been following numerous posts about setting up Alexa to respond based on the brightness of a virtual light. Unfortunately I can’t seem to get my setup to recognize that the light has a brightness attribute. Here is my code for setting up the light which is in my configuration.yaml. When I go to the Dev Tools Templating, I get “None” when I try to return brightness.

{{ state_attr('light.alexa_virtual','brightness') }}

light:
    - platform: template
      lights:
        alexa_virtual:
          friendly_name: "Alexa Dummy Light"
          turn_on:
          turn_off:
          set_level:
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The brightness attribute is rendered based on the level_template. You haven’t set a level_template.

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Thanks that did it. I copied the Template Light from the documentation and add this line as suggested:

level_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.theater_brightness', 'lux')|int }}"

Now I can retrieve the brightness. If I go to Dev Tools and set the brightness, it returns as expected. Now the next issue. When I have Alexa set the brightness, I get 0. Doesn’t matter what I put in. Do I need to use Emulated Hue in this case?

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I was able to get it working. I decided to go the route of hass-virtual by twrecked.

Installed that using HACS and put it in the configuration.yaml. Once that was done I just had to update my entity ids appropriately and it was off and running.

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Okay so I’m pretty new to the whole Homeassistant thing and I just can’t figure out how to get the Hcas integration to work. Don’t know where to write the various things inside yaml. can you help haha?