LZW42 bulb white channels in Home Assistant / Z-Wave JS UI

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I am running Home Assistant 2023.7.3 with Z-Wave JS UI 8.22.0. I am using the Z-Wave JS integration in HA (no MQTT, node red, etc).

I have a LZW42 with fw v2.31 that I included in Z-Wave JS UI with no encryption. The device info, values, etc all appear as expected in UI. There are values under Color Switch v1 where I can manually set warm white, cold white, R, G, and B values and the bulb responds.

In Home Assistant, the light card in the dashboard only shows RGB settings (which work) – but no warm white or cold white settings. If I Download Diagnostics for the device in HA, the light entity shows “supported_features”:32 instead of 177.

I tried adding a “supported_features: 177” override in HA’s customize.yaml under the light entity id, and restarted HA and re-interviewed the device, but this did not seem to help. Download Diagnostics still shows supported_features:32.

Any suggestions on how to enable the white channel controls? Or any other settings, logs, etc I should check? Thanks!

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HA 2023.7.3 with Zwave JS UI 8.22.0. Bulbs on FW v2.31

Color temp controls are definitely supported. This is the entity card

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Which light card are you using on your dashboard?
I use the mushroom cards and it’s an option

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type: custom:mushroom-light-card
entity: light.night_light_bulb
use_light_color: true
show_brightness_control: true
show_color_temp_control: true
show_color_control: true
collapsible_controls: true
name: Night Light Bulb
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MRobi, thank you for your help. I am using the standard entities card, and it opens the standard light control (like your first pic) when I click on it.

I do have the third (white?) color selector that you highlighted – and after some further testing, I think I was not clearly understanding how that card works. I assumed it was mixing a white color based on RGB since I could only seem to find specific RGB channel values anywhere on the card. I now see, if I watch the channels in Z-Wave JS UI, that the white card is only mixing cool/warm white channels on the bulb. Also, I was only clicking around the wheel, and now see that if you drag around it shows the K temperature at the top. I guess that explains why they don’t specifically show the white channel values, but just clicking around I could never seem to get the whites to look right again.

Anyway, I think it is working correctly. I’ve been thinking about trying mushroom cards, and probably will now that I see yours – that warm/cool slider makes a lot more sense to me than the wheel. Thanks again!!

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Glad you got it figured out!

I’ve built my entire dashboard around mushroom cards and card mod. Makes it infinitely customizable. Be warned, it’s a pretty deep rabbit hole to go down LOL I don’t even want to think about how many hours I have into my dashboard and it’s still not quite perfect for me.