If condition never triggers action

[livid steppe]

I am trying to make an automation where depending on the current colour of the light, it changes the lights to a different colour. I have tried using an IF statement for this but the IF statement never triggers the action. Am I doing something wrong? I checked that the RGB values of the bulb in the state menu match that in the IF statement but it still doesn't trigger the action.

[worthy ruin]

I don't think that state will be correct, you probably have to drop to YAML to do this.

Can you paste the YAML version of that code?

[half estuary]

its got something to do with it expecting a properly formatted list, but instead its just getting 255, 174, 92 and (seemingly) just checking against 255 and returning false.

in a template you can surround with parenthesis it will work normally, doesnt seem to do that in a condition, templated or untemplated when surrounded with either parenthesis or brackets

[worthy ruin]

I got this to work with a template condition. Couldn't figure out any syntax to make a state condition work:

{{ state_attr('light.kitchen_lights', 'rgb_color') == (255, 64, 112) }}

[half estuary]

same here

[worthy ruin]

I guess it's because the attribute is a tuple, and there's no syntax to represent a tuple in yaml, so I guess that's why state condition doesn't seem to be possible

[livid steppe]

So is there any way I could get round it?

[livid steppe]

I want to make it so a button on a switch cycles between a set group of colours

Like

If purple, set blue

If blue, set red

If red set green

If green set white

If white set blue

[livid steppe]

Else set white

If that makes any sense

[worthy ruin]

It makes sense, and the information I've already given should help you do that.

[livid steppe]

I am very new to HA and have no experience writing YAML code, does this look correct or no? Sorry :/

[half estuary]

you need to use a template condition

then you can enter the template straight from the ui

the template you have looks right, just need to put it in a template condition

[worthy ruin]

(just don't include outer quotation marks in the UI)

[livid steppe]

Ok thank you, I have got it semi working, the only issue I have now is that it changes to a colour value a few off of what I tell it to?!!!

[livid steppe]

E.g. if I say set to 255, 213, 164

It sets it to 255, 214, 161?

Any idea why>

Here is my code: https://paste.ofcode.org/34X3Fi9iJ77iD87P38iD4JF

[livid steppe]

The first press obviously works, but when it tries to change to the second colour, it obviously doesn’t work as it is not set to the correct colour value

[half estuary]

the state system usually reads it as a value 0-255 while some bulbs can only be set 1-100%

so it will just set it to the closest allowed value

so the answer is to change the condition to match what the bulb will actually set

[livid steppe]

Ok thank you

[covert field]

There is a custom macro "Color Multi-Tool" available in HACS that has a macro to get the closest color name from RGB.

[livid steppe]

Where can I find this? I have HACS installed.