From 2220df5a3ea313eef2ee3e9a591db91aa68adf51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paulus Schoutsen <Paulus@PaulusSchoutsen.nl>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:38:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Better light.xy_color parsing

---
 homeassistant/components/light/__init__.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/homeassistant/components/light/__init__.py b/homeassistant/components/light/__init__.py
index 54099600287..30a221cbaeb 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/light/__init__.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/light/__init__.py
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ def setup(hass, config):
                     # xy_color should be a list containing 2 floats
                     xycolor = dat.get(ATTR_XY_COLOR)
 
-                    if len(xycolor) == 2:
+                    # Without this check, a xycolor with value '99' would work
+                    if not isinstance(xycolor, str):
                         params[ATTR_XY_COLOR] = [float(val) for val in xycolor]
 
                 except (TypeError, ValueError):