rgb support for HomeAssistant

I am unable to set the color on my Yeelight YLDL01YL Meteorite light. HomeAssistant does support it with its Yeelight integration and setting the color does work.

service: light.turn_on
data:
  entity_id: light.yeelight_ceiling10_0xyz_ambilight
  rgb_color:
    - 0
    - 255
    - 0

On, Off and Dim does work with “HomeAssistant Device” type.

{"entityId":"light.yeelight_ceiling10_0xyz_ambilight","hassName":"Home Assistant","state":"on"}
{"entityId":"light.yeelight_ceiling10_0xyz_ambilight","hassName":"Home Assistant","state":"on","bri":"${intensity.percent}"}
{"entityId":"light.yeelight_ceiling10_0xyz_ambilight","hassName":"Home Assistant","state":"off"}

Is setting the rgb color supported? I can’t find it on the documentation or an example.

[pimw1]

Hi, í’ve finetuned it a bit to get the smoothest response from Hyperion (with transition = 0.5). I also got to know that “color items” also need brightness variable in it (otherwise applications like hyperion can only change color but not birghtness). See below all settings that i am using.

Generic “Bridge Control” Settings, section “HomeAssistant Names and IP Addresses”

• Name: Home Assistant (can be any name)
• IP: 192.168.2.21 (ip address of your Home Assisant device)
• Port: 8123 (is usually 8123)
• Token/Password: your_super_secret_token
• Auth Type: do not select “Legacy password”
• Use SSL: do not select this option

-> Save > wait for 10 seconds: the Bridge is reinitializing, but this message stays forever > “Bridge Stop” -> rerun HA-Bridge (if you installed HA-bridge up correctly, this will happen automatically when rebooting the device running HA-Bridge). After reboot, do the following:

• Add your devices using the tab “HomeAssistant Devices”: select them and click on Build Item. Save with the green button on top.
• Under “Bridge Devices”, you can press Edit/Copy. This will bring you to the next screen, at which you should add the settings as explained below:

On Items:

• Type: HTTP Device
• Target Item: http://192.168.2.21:8123/api/services/light/turn_on (please replace with the ip-address of your device running Home Assistant)
• Delay: empty
• Count: empty
• Filter IP’s: empty
• HTTP Verb: POST
• HTTP Body: {“entity_id”:“light.woonkamer_subwoofer”,“transition”:0.5}
• HTTP Headers: [{“name”:“Authorization”,“value”:“Bearer your_super_secret_token”}]
• Content Type: application/json

As you can see, my device is “light.woonkamer_subwoofer”. Please change this to your entity_id of interest (the entity id as it is named in Home Assistant itself). This remark naturally applies also to the rest of the settings below.

Dim Items:

• Type: HTTP Device
• Target Item: http://192.168.2.21:8123/api/services/light/turn_on (please replace with the ip-address of your device running Home Assistant)
• Delay: empty
• Count: empty
• Filter IP’s: empty
• HTTP Verb: POST
• HTTP Body: {“entity_id”:“light.woonkamer_subwoofer”,“transition”:0.5,"brightness"😒{intensity.byte}}
• HTTP Headers: [{“name”:“Authorization”,“value”:“Bearer your_super_secret_token”}]
• Content Type: application/json

Off Items:

• Type: HTTP Device
• Target Item: http://192.168.2.21:8123/api/services/light/turn_on (please replace with the ip-address of your device running Home Assistant)
• Delay: empty
• Count: empty
• Filter IP’s: empty
• HTTP Verb: POST
• HTTP Body: {“entity_id”:“light.woonkamer_subwoofer”,“transition”:0.5}
• HTTP Headers: [{“name”:“Authorization”,“value”:“Bearer your_super_secret_token”}]
• Content Type: application/json

Color Items:

• Type: HTTP Device
• Target Item: http://192.168.2.21:8123/api/services/light/turn_on (please replace with the ip-address of your device running Home Assistant)
• Delay: empty
• Count: empty
• Filter IP’s: empty
• HTTP Verb: POST
• HTTP Body: {“entity_id”:“light.woonkamer_subwoofer”,“transition”:0.5,“rgb_color”:[${color.r},${color.g},${color.b}],"brightness"😒{intensity.byte}}`
• HTTP Headers: [{“name”:“Authorization”,“value”:“Bearer your_super_secret_token”}]
• Content Type: application/json.

I’m linking here to a topic on the Home Assistant forum: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ha-bridge-with-auth-token/93729 That gave me important clues how to do this. I hope this explanation will help others. The end-result is pretty spectacular: HDMI grabber ->Hyperion->HA-Bridge->Home Assistant ->

• Zigbee Conbee II -> Hue lights
• Wifi LIFX lights.

edit: i’ve created a more extensive manual on how to setup Hyperion-> HA-Bridge -> Home Assistant. You can find it here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/instruction-hyperion-ha-bridge-home-assistant/307708

[pimw1]

I think/hope that i’ve got a solution: i’m sending out the below http requests:

When testing, all four buttons are working (TEST ON, Test Dim, Test OFF, Test Color).

This was quite a challenge since i’m not a programmer (i had to learn on the fly how to use REST APIs plus combining that knowlegde with the usage of the HA-Bridge variables).

Edit: the black bars are my super secret Home Assisant token, i’d like it to stay super secret 😉