Lights on/off without manual take control should be possible -- is it? how?

[macleodal]

Not 100% sure where to post this so trying here. Seem to be stuck on something really basic but I'm pretty sure my settings are as they should be so I'm mystified.

Situation:

• 6 innr Zigbee smart bulbs in a single Zigbee group in ZHA > Home Assistant
• Adaptive Lighting (AL from here) working fine / well when it's in control
• No-one is manually controlling the lights (from the HA dash or anywhere else)
• When the lights are turned off and on again they revert to manual control
• The off / on is effected by using light.toggle

The test area is my Landing (the bedroom floor of the house). Attached screenshots are a live example of this happening. Before / after shots of the attributes of the

• The lights being controlled are a Zigbee group of 6 lights
• In the before you can see the lights are definitely under the control of Adaptive Lighting (no entries in the. Manual
• Lights are turned off / on using light.toggle as below:

action: light.toggle
metadata: {}
target:
  entity_id: light.home_assistant_connect_zbt_2_landing_zb_group
data: {}

• After toggling off and then on again, all six lights in the group have turned onto manual control, see image
• I am using light.toggle which passes no new state parameters (brightness, colour etc) just a command to turn off (if on) or on (if off) i.e. classic toggle.
• This is not just a facet of my particular devices (which are innr RS 241 T GU10 warm / cool white smart bulbs). On the same HA system I also have some Hue lights which are primarily controlled by a Hue Hub Pro - but the behaviour is exactly the same, and again I have had to use an automation to say "when you see these lights turned on, apply Adaptive Lighting" (even though it was applied when they were turned off, as reflected by the state of the Adaptive Lighting switch).

For such an excellent piece of code it makes no sense to me (and I do not believe) that the authors failed to consider that people will want to turn the lights off and on without requiring an automation to re-apply the adaptive lighting... if it was active before the lights were turned off "cleanly", then when they are turned back on "cleanly" they should come back on in the same mode.

The ONLY thing I can think of that could be a configuration thing is that I read you should not control lights through a single group control but rather control them individually. So arguably I've created an asymmetry because whereas the YAML for toggling the lights addresses the light.home_assistant_connect_zbt_2_landing_zb_group entity, the actual configuration of the AL integration for this area addresses the members of the group individually. I can't find the YAML generated by the UI config but you can see the screenshot of the lights individually referenced in the specific area AL integration config.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. I've spent hours on this. And whilst an automation can of course fix it, it feels like I am creating a workaround for something that should not need (and probably doesn't need) a workaround.

Thanks

Alastair