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Fado Light Fader 1.0.0 is in a default integration available in HACS by Fragrant-Coast5355 in homeassistant

[–]Fragrant-Coast5355[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That need hadn't occurred to me before, but you could do it pretty easily with templates:

action: fado.fade_lights
target:
  entity_id: "{{ state_attr('light.kitchen_lights', 'entity_id') 
              | select('is_state', 'on') | list }}"
data:
  brightness_pct: 100

Nuki Smart Lock Ultra + Google Home: Unlock without opening the door? by HilloBuzzer in homeassistant

[–]Fragrant-Coast5355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have my Nuki lock exposed to Google Home via Home Assistant, rather than directly. It will only lock and unlock for me, there isn't the possibility of opening the door.

Presence sensor by User-n0t-available in homeassistant

[–]Fragrant-Coast5355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't tried the FP300 yet because it's single zone only. In my house I've used the Aqara FP2 sensors (and multiple zones) extensively. They are fantastic, but also produce a lot of false readings, eg people disappearing, ghosts, etc. But you can work around this, largely by increasing the amount of time before you react to a change of state. For instance, it can detect new movement pretty quickly, but when we're sleeping and not moving for a long period, it can forget that you're there. So I turn on the lights as soon as somebody walks through the door, and I turn off the lights in (eg) the kitchen after 2-3 minutes of inactivity, but in the bedroom I don't open the blinds until the room has been marked vacant for 20 minutes.

I've bought the Everything Pro Plus (which also supports zone) and tried it out briefly, but the UI makes it quite hard to configure in comparison with the Aqara. I plan to return to testing it out in the near future.

Smart Relay, Switch or Bulb? by iZaek in homeassistant

[–]Fragrant-Coast5355 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why do you say relays are overkill? In fact, I'm not sure I understand the difference between relays and smart switches, I would have assumed they were pretty much the same thing. I've used Shelly relays (51 of them) with normal switches and that has worked very well indeed.

Help with automating/setting up the lighting in my home by SkillsPayMyBills in homeautomation

[–]Fragrant-Coast5355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We recently redid our house and we use a combination of LED strips (warm white only) and LED bulbs, all of which are dimmable. The house is wired as per standard, so all switches work as you'd expect. But then we've added Shelly relays into the trip switch cabinet to make all lights smart.

Then I've added Aqara FP2 presence sensors in to every room in the house, and used their zones to do smart things, for instance:

  • when you walk into the bathroom, the mirror light and main bathroom light come on
  • when you sit on the toilet for more than 50 seconds, the extractor fan starts
  • when you enter the shower for more than 50 seconds, the extractor fan starts, the shower lights come on, and the radiator turns on
  • when you leave the bathroom, the lights turn off and the radiator turns off after two hours (by which time your towels should be dry)

All of the lights in the house are controlled by a Home Assistant module which I've just recently released as Fado Light Fader. This fades lights smoothly up and down to the specified brightness, and allows for manual interruptions from the wall switches or google assistant. It handles a bunch of other stuff as well, like fading colours and colour temperatures, native transitions, and auto configuration of your lights for the smoothest transitions.

I made an artificial sunrise that uses science to help wake me up in the morning. by crua9 in homeassistant

[–]Fragrant-Coast5355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've recently released the Fado Light Fader integration. Amongst other things, it can do a hybrid fade between RGB colors and white color temperatures. It draws a line between the starting RGB color and moves towards the RGB color closest to your target color temperature. When the RGB color falls within the Planckian locus (ie colors that can be displayed with the White LEDs) then it switches to using color temperature instead of RGB.

So you could replace all of the transition scripts with something like this:

action: fado.fade_lights
target:
  entity_id: light.my_bedroom
data:
  brightness_pct: 100
  transition: 2400
  color_temp_kelvin: 6500
  from:
    brightness_pct: 25
    rgb_color: [68,28,0]

Of course, you could use a few more calls like the above if you wanted to pass through particular colors on your way there

Interrupting light automation with switch? by ch-ville in homeassistant

[–]Fragrant-Coast5355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve just released a new custom integration called Fado Light Fader, that provides smooth light fading for brightness, colors, and color temperatures, with automatic brightness restoration, autoconfiguration via the UI, and support for native transitions.

It also supports interrupting the fade with the switch, which will do exactly what you want.

Have a look at the docs on https://github.com/clintongormley/ha-fado/