No longer able to set light color with new automation UI

[Logicus]

Ever since the new Home UI came out, you can no longer set a light colour as an action.

On/off and brightness are the only options, so unless I use the script editor, it doesn't give the option to set a light colour based on an input, routine, or automation

[SmartHomeH-TAGS]

In your Android phone Google search for "Assistant Routines" to use the alternative and original Household and Personal Automations.

[Logicus]

Then what's the purpose of the new automation creator. There are things you can do in the new one you couldn't do in the old, and the old ones failed so often that this was supposed to replace and fix it.

Is this the continued en**bleep**tification of Google Home to make us pay extra?

[SmartHomeH-TAGS]

The "new" Google Home app is called "Early Access" and we were made aware of it's limitations before signing up to this beta type testing.

It will improve over time, but at least there is an option we can use. I prefer to use the old way, but I'm very excited for those conditions in the new app.

[mattrwo]

I haven’t got a clue. Mine just updated. No idea I signed up to anything 😂

[Logicus]

Yeah, this was rolled out to all users, there are still server changes happening in the background for Gemini, but this seems to be fully out and no longer early access.

[mattrwo]

I’ve found you have to choose it on the actual light. Not as an automation. Which is annoying as you cant have a certain light temperature for a certain time of the day. You can only set the light colour and it stays the same. 
all my automations have deleted and when trying to set them all up again it’s unable to save them so now I’m having to do everything manually until I work out how to do it all again. Really annoying.