I think I understand what you are encountering. I am able to perform all controls from the popup, but not set any settings from the yaml file other than on and off and transition. Maybe I am doing something wrong also. What I am working on is using an led strip to light up RED in the front hallway when the alarm is on. This “should” prevent my family from just running out the front door without turning off the alarm.
What I had to do for that instance was turn on the yeelight, set the color I wanted, then turn it off. It will remember the last color. Would love to get it to flash green for a few seconds when the alarm is turned off. I’ll keep playing with it.
Here is my automation section referring to this action.
alias: ‘Alarm_Armed_Home’
trigger:
entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmcom
platform: state
to: ‘armed_home’
action:
service: light.turn_on
entity_id: light.alarmstatus
alias: ‘Alarm_Disarmed’
trigger:
entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmcom
platform: state
to: ‘disarmed’
action:
service: light.turn_off
entity_id: light.alarmstatus
hi all, not sure if my issue is related to this component and to the fix suggested above:
I have a white yeelight connected to HASS - before updating from 0.50.1, I had the effects dropdown available and had no issues using the toggle button to switch on and off the yeelight.
since updating to 0.52.1, I no longer have the effects option and the only way to switch off the light is to move the brightness slider back to the zero position.
But to be sure, i recomend you enter to your home assistant options and go to state and see what you see in your yeelight led strip, and change the entity_id of my example by yours
Did you figured what the problem was with your LED strip?
I’m having the same issue as I can turn on/off and even can set an effect however, I can’t control the colors of the LEDs.
I’m getting frustrated for a while now trying to figure this out…!