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Aux can't be set to anything but high or low, so advanced colour mixing can't be done, if that's what you mean.
It is possible in theory to use some colours on low and some on high at the same time, but the brightness difference would make the low invisible.
Also, it can't be done with PWM because the MCU wouldn't be able to sleep when the light was off/locked, and there aren't enough free PWM counters IIRC anyway.
Maybe if there was a smarter RGB LED, that could have 3 values set via serial and it has a chip on it to do the processing and adjust its outputs, but such a device would be too large to fit where the current aux LEDs go on any light.
There are 1515 neopixels iirc. It would fit. I just dont know if the mcus supported by anduril are fast enough.
Unfortunately Neopixels consume too much power, about 1mA quiescent current each, also min Vin is 3.75V according to the datasheet.
The other day I found this small RGB controller, 200uA quiescent current (LEDs off), 300uA LEDs ON, which is much better especially with only one controller for all the aux LEDs.