Alexa Light with colour temperature

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Hi i'm new to the cloud side of things so hopefully I'm missing something obvious.
I want to create a Thing to control a light via Alexa. Currently the only options when creating an Alexa compatible variable are:
Colored Light
Dimmed Light
Light

The problem I have is the light I wish to control is dimmable, but can also have the colour temperature vary (Cool white, Warm White, etc), but its not an RGB light.

And none of the variables seem to accommodate this type setup...The only one that seemed appreciate for my use case was the coloured light, but its not ideal as the light appears in Alexa as an RGB coloured light, and I can't work out how to vary the hue with Alexa commands.

Previously I used a branch of FauxmoESP, which had this functionality (the Alexa light appeared as a Philips Hue light, and I could vary the color temperature via Alexa commands), it worked but was pretty unreliable, so im rewriting from scratch and I like the simplicity of the cloud approach.

So really my questions are: am I missing something obvious? How hard would this be to implement? or is the only option to use the unreliable branch of FauxmoESP ?

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Hi,
which MCU do you use? There are many methods to do what you want, but some of them are a little bit complicated. The thing that I recommend to you is to use SinricPro. There are many tutorials online to use it. But remember is not a professional implementation. It works fine for personal use and hobby projects.

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