I just received 2 3rd Reality MultiFunction Night Lights. My main intent for them is to use it as a garage door alert so it will turn color (red) when the tilt sensors on either of the garage doors are opened. Then I noticed a feature that said FLASH. So I did the following and it’s not working, but if I click RUN (so I don’t overwork the garage door motor) it shows as running in the light log but it never did those actions when I look at it. I did look up the device on the web site to see what it wants for a color setting and there is really no info on there for it other than how to pair. I have tried the HEX code for red and it will not allow it to be entered, I then tried the RGB color code of 255, 0, 0 and it will only allow the entry of a numerical it will not allow commas. BUT either way it won’t flash while opened so I got to start there.
There are a couple of issues with what you have posted, mostly they stem from the your use of Device actions. The action type you show in your post is " Set value for Bathroom Night Light Start-up color temperature"… this action does not set the current color, it sets the color temperature that the light will use after the device has a power loss. This value is in mireds not HEX, RGB, etc.
Use the light.turn_on action instead of a Device action to access control over color and other attributes.
I got it to light up in red when the door is open but I need to make some time to follow the traces. A) it no longer stays in night light mode (blue) it’s shut off now. B) It does not flash but ONCE… which is OK since it stays red and let’s us know before bed that someone left the door open, which then lets us know to go to the ZOOZ relay box and close the door on our dashboard. BUT I would like to get it fixed up so it’s in night light mode all the time then turns red while open then back to blue or WHATEVER once the door is closed again.
I have them working properly now (except flashing since it seems to only cause a SINGLE flash and that’s not important to me) BUT with now with the light turn on action when the doors close the night light shuts off vs staying in it’s normal BLUE state. I would like the night lights to operate as normal, stay on as BLUE at all times EXCEPT when the door is open which would turn the lights to RED.
Would it be possible to show me how the action was used to turn on different colors with the nightlight? I do apologize. I am very new with home assistant and have only used the Device actions in a a routine. Please be as thorough as possible since I need all the guidance you can give.
The action light.turn_on can be found in the same “Add action” dialog box as Device actions, just use the “Search action” bar or manually navigate to it by scrolling down to “Light”.
Then you select the Entity, Device, Area, or Label you want to target. My suggestion would be to use the Entity. If your light accepts other settings they will become available once the target is selected.
I don’t own the 3rd Reality night light, but here is what it looks like with a different light device:
The action shown above will turn the light on if it is off and set the color to that red. If the light is already on it will just change the color. In YAML this action is configured as follows:
Can you show the automation sequence? I am trying to accomplish the same thing for my back door. I was able to get the light to turn red, but then it wouldn’t go back to normal after the door was closed. Thank you
I don’t know if you got this working but I had the same issue. When trying to switch from one color to another with the night light on it would turn off. Well appear to be off. The state of the light still showed to be on but it wasn’t giving off any light.
To fix this I wrote my automation to be when going from the color I had set in reaction to my trigger the light would turn off then wait one second then turn back on at the second color I wanted.
Example: when motion is detected in my mailbox the light turns blue meaning I have mail. Then when I open the box lid the light turns off waits one second then turns back on white and remains on as white.
This is a really old topic, but the hardware is still out there, and there is even a newer version, so I’m reviving it from the dead.
I’m bringing this up because I’m trying to do something similar and wondering if anyone has made it work yet?
I have two of these lights, and I want to use them in my studio. There is a reasonable amount of ambient noise there (I paint and I have a ventilator), so I need a visual way to notify me when someone opens the access door that isn’t visible to me from my workspace. I got my TTS message to work with the Satellite assistant, and last night I found I can get it to play through my HomePod, which has better volume, but I still need a light.
Simply put, I have a door sensor that triggers the TTS when it is in an open state to announce as much. I’d like it to also illuminate this light in red (preferably) and then turn it back off.
I feel like we’re pretty close, but not quite there.
Post your automation’s config so we can see what you’ve done. What isn’t working the way you want?
Describe, in detail, what you want the light to do. Should it just turn on, then turn off immediately…after a couple seconds… stay on until the door closes… flash a couple times, then stay on?
Hi everyone. I am sharing this in case someone is trying to achieve the same.
This automation is to indicate when a bathroom is occupied using the 3rd Reality smart night light.
The goal was to create a visual indicator outside the room (a blinking night light) that:
activates automatically when someone is inside,
continues flashing as long as the room is in use, (this might answer the OP question)
and restores the light to its previous state afterward.
I built this because:
I wasn’t able to properly use the native “flash” behavior (often only a single blink),
and I wanted a solution that works consistently regardless of the device.
This approach uses:
a door sensor (to detect when the room is closed),
a presence sensor (to confirm someone is inside),
and a repeat loop to create a continuous blinking effect, (this could be enhance to add some settings to the light. i.e.: brightness, color, etc…
along with a scene snapshot to restore the original light state.
I believe it’s a flexible pattern that can be reused for other use cases (alerts, notifications, status indicators), not just bathroom occupancy.
NB: I am sharing the YAML script but it should translate fairly easily into Home Assistant automation visual UI
NB2: I am using ACTION instead of SERVICE in the syntax below.
They are functionally equivalent in most cases
action: light.turn_on (is for HA UI style)
service: light.turn_on (core YAML style)
alias: Bathroom Occupied Indicator
description: >
Blink a night light while the bathroom is occupied.
The light returns to its previous state afterward.
triggers:
# Trigger when the bathroom door is CLOSED
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.door_sensor_bathroom
from: "on"
to: "off"
conditions:
# Only run if presence is detected inside the bathroom
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.bathroom_presence
state: "on"
for:
seconds: 3
actions:
# 1. Save current state of the light
- action: scene.create
data:
scene_id: before_flash_bathroom
snapshot_entities:
- light.night_light
# 2. Flash loop while door is closed
# It's a basic loop of turn_on/turn_off with a delay between
- repeat:
while:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.door_sensor_bathroom
state: "off"
sequence:
- action: light.turn_on
target:
entity_id: light.night_light
data:
brightness_pct: 100 # this is where you could set different color,brightness,... for the blinking state
rgb_color: [255, 0, 0]
- delay:
milliseconds: 400
- action: light.turn_off
target:
entity_id: light.night_light
- delay:
milliseconds: 400
# 3. Restore original state
- action: scene.turn_on
target:
entity_id: scene.before_flash_bathroom
mode: restart
