Hue service light.toggle flash turns of light

[mvv588]

The problem

When you call service light.toggle flash: long the light does not flash but turns of instead.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2021.12.0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

2021.11.x

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Philips Hue

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/hue/

Example YAML snippet

service: light.toggle
data:
  flash: long
target:
  device_id: e7de0f0c6dd1fda93bc5d98dc0d9819b

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

Rebooted Hue Bridge and HA.

[probot-home-assistant]

hue documentation
hue source
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[probot-home-assistant]

Hey there @balloob, @marcelveldt, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (hue) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!
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[marcelveldt]

The flash effect is phased out in the new V2 api for Hue. There's an alternative called "alert" which will be a "breathe" effect similar to the long flash. We will implement that as an alternative asap. Watch the releasenotes when it's available, thanks!

[emufan]

@marcelveldt Will there be an HA internal work around as well for color effect RANDOM? Yes, I could try to calculate and template, but wouldn't it be better to have as random-effect proxy in the integration, which is taking the effect random from the core, and simulate it with a random color towards HUE?