The Problem:
My bulbs currently turn on to their last “on” values. Then, if the service call indicates, they’ll change color, brighten, or dim as necessary.
What this means is at night, if someone triggers a motion sensor in the bathroom, the lights turn on blindingly bright and then dim down to the dark purple color I’ve assigned as the night light. This is clearly not desired. To get around this I always turn them off in a two-step procedure. First, I dim them down to brightness 1 at the desired color, then I turn them off.
The Desired State
Bulbs should always turn on at brightness 1 and at the color specified in the service call.
Looking around, I see new options in Home Assistant if I go into the device settings for the bulb. There I see a configuration section that contains various options light “startup behavior”, startup color temperature, startup current level.
What I do not see is any documentation about these options. Nor can I figure out how to start them to a non-white value. I have successfully made a bulb always start at brightness 1 and at a desired temperature.
I’ve also come across the light_profiles.csv documentation which does allow setting an xy color but so far I haven’t made this work. I don’t think this controls the startup behavior. I think it indicates how the light should turn on if no additional color/brightness information is provided.
Does anyone have any handy tips?
Thank you in advance.
