ZHA and Lidl lights (Silvercrest) Color temp slider

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Hi all,

This may be a stupid question, but I am not very experienced with HA so I try my luck at this community.

I have connected all my Lidl color lights via the Conbee II stick and ZHA integration. On default there was always this temperature slider for every light:

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I used this slider to set the correct light temperature, because the brightness of the Lidl lights is really bad when a color is chosen from the Color wheel. But now the slider is not present anymore, I can only use the color wheel?

What is the cause of this change? Is it an update of Home Assistant itself or from the ZHA intergration? What can I do to get it back?

Thanks!

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I also have a Lidl Silvercrest LED bulb which shows up in Zigbee as a LivarnoLux Bulb TS0505A.
[Note several different devices are mapped to TS0505A - mine shows up as S0505A by _TZ3000_dbou1ap4]

About two releases ago, this was exposed as a colour bulb, but the white was generated from R+G+B so was pretty poor. There was a PR to change the Zigbee definition for the device to a simple LED bulb which turned it into a decently bright white LED bulb, but removed all colours.

I don’t have the original link, but found a related issue for the TS0505A.

What our devices really need is a Zigbee definition in the HASS integration that recognises the device as R+G+B+Cool+Warm - effectively 4 or 5 sets of LEDs to map to white colour temp OR colour.

Under ‘Zigbee info’, my device lists Quirk: zhaquirks.lidl.rgbcct.RGBCCTLight showing the integration doesn’t use what the bulb exports, but a “quirk”.

Now, it appears we can crate our own custom quirk and install it locally to test.

Not something I’ve managed to do yet, but at least a partial explanation might help!

[edited to add my exact device type]

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Thank you for your answer! I will look into it.

Mine indeed showes up as TS0505A as well.

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After the latest update of Home Assistant core, the slider is back.

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The release notes for 2022.08 include the line:

The PR itself separates colour from colour temperature - which fits as these bulbs have both RGB and 2x white.

I’m happy to report that my LivarnoLux Bulb TS0505A (S0505A by _TZ3000_dbou1ap4) also is controllable for RGB and colour temperature - fixed by David! :slight_smile:

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Hello, I just switched to Home Assistant yesterday and all works great except my Lidl RGBCW light, I cant change the color. How did you manage to get it to work?

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All the details are linked above - fixed in HASS release 2022.08

Sadly, replying to two year old threads doesn’t usually lead to insight.

I’d instead recommend starting a new thread with the exact model / details of your bulb as Lidl / Aldi kit tens to change manufacturer / chipset / software regularly.

The Zigbee integration (likely ZHA) should get the manufacturer / model code from the firmware and apply any “quirks” (special fixes for buggy non-standard behaviour). This is what changed back in 2022.08 and added back colour to my device.