Warm White on button press

[LeightonSolo (Leighton Solomon)]

I have various smart bulbs, and all of them default to a cool white color instead of warm white when turning them on from home assistant. To avoid this I created an automation for each bulb that listen’s to the state of the entity changing from “off” to “on” and immediately calls the light.turn_on service with this extra data: “brightness: 255 kelvin: 2700”. This means turning on a light has it cool white just for a split second before turning warm white, and works fine. However, if I try to make the light another color from say my google home or alexa, it also recognizes this as a light.turn_on trigger and makes them warm white, so basically all lights turn to warm white no matter what. Is there any other way to get these lights to only turn warm white when being turned on from home assistant?

[tom_l]

Put a condition in your warm white automation that checks the colour and colour temperature.

Only run the actions if the colour temp is cool while and the colour is white.

[ninjaef]

What integration component are you using , some have initial_value or similar? If you are using the native Light integration then look at DEFAULT VALUES in …

Light

… and create a .csv file with the profile.

[LeightonSolo (Leighton Solomon)]

I am using the native light integration and I and many others have had no luck with default values. I’ve set up that CSV file multiple times and it never seems to work. I might try again but I know I wasn’t the only one who had no luck by trying to set default values.

[ninjaef]

it works so you “and many others” must be doing something wrong.

as you don’t provide any setup or logs etc, you’re not going to progress this to conclusion i fear.

(automation on start HomeAssistant trigger…hint)

[LeightonSolo (Leighton Solomon)]

It doesn’t support color temperature so it wouldn’t help me anyway. The community has made blueprints to work around this so I’ll just have to use that.

Default turn-on brightness/color temperature for lights

[Open your Home Assistant instance and show the blueprint import dialog with a specific blueprint pre-filled.] Purpose This Blueprint allows you to select 1+ lights/light groups and their default brightness and color temperature. It also work for bulbs that only have brightness and do not have a color temperature option. Why This is useful for lights that do not have a default brightness/color temperature for when they turn on (like Sengled zigbee bulbs) and instead turn on to the state they…

Also thanks for assuming I won’t figure this out just because I didn’t initially provide any logs. I’d be happy to if someone had asked. Just trying to figure out why that solution has not worked for us.

[LeightonSolo (Leighton Solomon)]

Ahh that would probably work, thank you. I ended up just using this blueprint to change the default color temperature.

Default turn-on brightness/color temperature for lights

[Open your Home Assistant instance and show the blueprint import dialog with a specific blueprint pre-filled.] Purpose This Blueprint allows you to select 1+ lights/light groups and their default brightness and color temperature. It also work for bulbs that only have brightness and do not have a color temperature option. Why This is useful for lights that do not have a default brightness/color temperature for when they turn on (like Sengled zigbee bulbs) and instead turn on to the state they…

[ninjaef]

@LeightonSolo

Also thanks for assuming…

I’m done . Enjoy

[LeightonSolo (Leighton Solomon)]

For future reference though, what would I put for the state? I’m assuming that would be the condition. I’m not sure what the cool white values it defaults to are

condition: state
entity_id: light.living_room_light
state: ''