💡 Adaptive Lighting automatically adapts the brightness and color of your lights based on the sun's temperature but stops when you manually make a change

basnijholt · January 2, 2025, 9:07pm

@maesenator, just disabling the switch.adaptive_lighting_adapt_brightness_NAME_OF_INSTANCE should do the trick. I have just tried to reproduce your problem but cannot.

I strongly suspect that you have perhaps a second Adaptive Lighting instance that includes your lights, which has adapt_brightness enabled.

Please enable debugging logging (see here) and share the logs. I am pretty confident that this is an error on your side because I have seen this problem a bunch of times before and it always turned out to be a user-error.

basnijholt · January 2, 2025, 9:33pm

@nonamejuju, @maesenator, @bouwew, it is the Home Assistant UI that automatically adds the checkbox in the UI next to any slider and (I think at least) I have no control over that, so that is why that checkbox doesn’t do anything.

maesenator · January 2, 2025, 9:38pm

FWIW, I was experiencing this issue with 1 out of 6 instances of AL. Instances that I’ve had running for at least a year and we’re retained during updates.
Today, I’ve removed this instance entirely and recreated it (with identical config). This evening my lights are not dimming.

I will continue to observe and provide logs if I have something to log, but for now it appears to be resolved.

PS: I can guarantee that the brightness switch was turned off. It is for all my instances.

JM123 · January 3, 2025, 4:30pm

Did you ever find a fix for the delay on the Caseta lights? I understand Lutron intentionally delays sending the update to its hub by a few seconds, which occasionally causes Adaptive Lighting to enable manual control.

walberjunior · January 3, 2025, 9:28pm

Basnijholt, thanks for the integration.

I have a function request.
A function visit/guest/party equal the sleep function, but to be used when we have a guest at home and we want to keep the light at a higher temperature and brightness.
Basically duplicating the sleep function.

Cake1468 · January 7, 2025, 5:44am

Do you mean a toggle that would override the adaptive function and set brightness/color to a specific range? That could be accomplished with a toggle helper and automation.

Cake1468 · January 9, 2025, 5:16am

Does anyone know if there’s an accessible place that the configurations are stored when they’re created in the GUI? I’d like to duplicate a configuration then tweak it slightly.

walberjunior · January 9, 2025, 2:18pm

I know it is possible using helpers and automation, but the idea is to replicate the operation of sleep mode, but use it to maintain a higher temperature and brightness.

Let’s say I have 3 different automations that turn on a lamp and I create a “Guest Mode” helper.

When turning on the guest mode, I disable Adaptive Lighting, so in each of the three automations I have to check if the “Guest Mode” helper is on and tell it to turn on the lamp and change the brightness and temperature.

If the “Guest Mode” function is integrated with Adaptive Lighting, all we need to do is turn on the guest mode and Adaptive Lighting remains in control, as it already does with sleep mode.

In addition to your suggestion, there are at least two more options:

Use sleep mode to do this job, but then you lose sleep mode as it should be used.
Use an automation to change the parameters of sleep mode according to the condition, sleep mode or guest mode.

However, I think it would be interesting for the integration itself to have this feature natively.

Cake1468 · January 10, 2025, 1:17am

I see and understand. If I could make the changes I might try to tackle it, but alas I do not have the skill yet. Good alternative ideas!

steinis · January 19, 2025, 6:50am

Have a problem with the sun_position, it seems like its way off.

This is what is shall be:

and this is the sun.sun entity:

This is sun_position for adaptive lightning:

Have checked the position under system->generell

The problem is that the lights are way to bright in the morning:)

scoutamis123 · January 19, 2025, 6:13pm

I’ve had an issue for a while now that I’m pulling my hair out trying to solve.

The issue is pretty simple: I have multiple LIFX lights that I have around the house and an automation every day at the same time turns them on with the light.turn_on command. When they turn on each morning they immediately transition to 1%. My transition time is set to 1s if that’s relevant, but the lights stay at 1% for anywhere between 1 and 5 minutes, until they come back to the % they should be. Only brightness is changed on these lights, not color temp since they’re all colorful lights. This ONLY happens during this morning automation, I have been unable to replicate it manually (either by manually running the automation or turning them off and on myself).

I can share my settings but I’ve looked through every single one and can’t possibly figure out what is causing this. Does anyone have any idea?

jvdburgt · January 31, 2025, 8:16am

I’m trying to understand one thing that is not clear to me from the documentation:

Is there a difference (in terms of zigbee commands/traffic) between Adaptive Lighting acting on a turn-on command vs on an “apply adaptive lighting command”?

In other words, will the normal turn on command result in 2 separate messages over the network (one to turn on, followed by one to change brightness and color temp), and will the apply command result in a single message (with turn on, brightness and color temp all in one), or are they essentially the same?