# Colour picker still no good

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/colour-picker-still-no-good/2525>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [23 August 2018 22:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/colour-picker-still-no-good/2525 "2018-08-23T22:41:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![scargill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/scargill/32/1118_2.png) [@scargill](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/scargill)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2018 22:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/colour-picker-still-no-good/2525/1 "2018-08-23T22:41:01Z")

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Hi

As many of you know, I think Node-Red is the best thing since powdered milk (to quote a very old phrase) - everyone who made this possible deserves a medal - and I would LOVE to make good use of dashboard, but the colour picker remains utterly disfunctional - can anyone fix?

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**Author:** ![AD3D](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ad3d/32/2731_2.png) [@AD3D](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/AD3D)\
**Post date:** [4 July 2019 18:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/colour-picker-still-no-good/2525/2 "2019-07-04T18:21:42Z")

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Uhm... Is this still the case?  
Or is it just me....

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**Author:** ![Paul-Reed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/paul-reed/32/66906_2.png) [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)\
**Post date:** [4 July 2019 18:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/colour-picker-still-no-good/2525/3 "2019-07-04T18:24:13Z")

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What is the specific problem with it?  
Can you give some examples....

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**Author:** ![AD3D](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ad3d/32/2731_2.png) [@AD3D](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/AD3D)\
**Post date:** [4 July 2019 18:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/colour-picker-still-no-good/2525/4 "2019-07-04T18:57:27Z")

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I guess it is just me.  
I am trying to get that colour picker working on a small project.  
The case is that I have a RGB LED on an ESP8266. It has a webpage on its filesystem with a color picker on it and some buttons. (this morning I had another question -connect to websocket on ESP8266- with it but I don't know how to link that to this!. Sorry.)  
Any way, I can now send a string "@2" to that websocket to change the state. On or Off and that is working well.  
 ![lol01_dash01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/4/47d8c661f1b1853af880cfe2924ebb7dde5f654f.jpeg)  
(The #444800 value is the current color, received from the ESP8266)  
 ![lol01_debug01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/d/d06342a2be406602048f94722873e11f7c106104.jpeg)  
I was hoping that I could send a string like "#123456" (for example) to change the color.  
The colour picker from Node-RED is now connect to a debug node and that shows "#123456" (for example) so that looks good!

```auto
[{"id":"3a992337.e52354","type":"ui_colour_picker","z":"ab7cbe16.df717","name":"","label":"","group":"aadd247e.ac6898","format":"hex","outformat":"string","showSwatch":true,"showPicker":true,"showValue":true,"showHue":false,"showAlpha":false,"showLightness":true,"dynOutput":"false","order":4,"width":"4","height":"4","passthru":true,"topic":"","x":590,"y":140,"wires":[["a59afc57.78d15","315955d7.fee7f2"]]},{"id":"aadd247e.ac6898","type":"ui_group","z":"","name":"LOL01","tab":"4cbb5257.8f207c","disp":true,"width":"4","collapse":false},{"id":"4cbb5257.8f207c","type":"ui_tab","z":"","name":"LOL","icon":"dashboard"}]

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If I connect that colour picker to a websocket (the same way as with the button that only sends a @2 as a string) It don't work.

 ![lol01_flow01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/f/fa8340d4b802ab748417689fa6e9f783ab5b02b7.jpeg)  
I must do something wrong so I was searching the forum, but then found this about a not working colour picker.

btw: An inject node  
 ![inject_node01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/a/a1ab70ef686f2b7ba06239466f8d39fd6910fcc4.jpeg)  
like this, works.