I’ve been frustrated by the same issue, and seeing your post here yesterday reminded me to look into fixing it again. I came across this automation and it’s pretty much solved the problem!
I had to make one modification, because I have some adaptive lighting instances that adapt only brightness, so I added a check to make sure adapt_color was on before publishing the color updates. Here’s my version of the script in full:
alias: Maintain Adaptive Lighting Color Temperature
description: >-
Primes the color temperature of lights that are controlled by adaptive
lighting
and are currently off
triggers:
- trigger: time_pattern
minutes: /5
conditions: []
actions:
- repeat:
for_each: |-
{{integration_entities("adaptive_lighting")|
select("match","^switch\.adaptive_lighting_.*")|
reject("match","^switch\.adaptive_lighting_adapt_.*")|
reject("match","^switch\.adaptive_lighting_sleep_mode_.*")|
list}}
sequence:
- variables:
adaptive_lighting: "{{repeat.item}}"
adaptive_lighting_lights: |-
{{expand(state_attr(repeat.item,"configuration").lights)|
selectattr("state", "==", "off")| map(attribute="entity_id")|
list}}
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{
states(adaptive_lighting|replace('adaptive_lighting','adaptive_lighting_adapt_color'))
== 'on' }}
then:
- repeat:
for_each: "{{adaptive_lighting_lights}}"
sequence:
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{repeat.item in mqtt_entities}}"
then:
- action: mqtt.publish
data_template:
topic: >-
zigbee2mqtt/{{state_attr(repeat.item,
"friendly_name")}}/set
payload: |-
{
"color_options": {
"execute_if_off": "true"
}
}
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 100
- action: mqtt.publish
data_template:
topic: >-
zigbee2mqtt/{{state_attr(repeat.item,
"friendly_name")}}/set
payload: |-
{
"color_temp": {{state_attr(adaptive_lighting, "color_temp_mired")}},
"transition": 0
}
mode: single
variables:
mqtt_entities: "{{integration_entities(\"mqtt\")}}"
Note: my AL is pointed at some zigbee groups in addiditon to individual lights. I don’t believe this automation will set execute_if_off for the members of the group, and I don’t know if that matters – I had already set it for each individual light in each group. If you have zigbee groups adapted by AL and this automation doesn’t work, I’d try setting execute_if_off to true for each individual light and see if that fixes the problem.