Ambivision PRO "integration"

[obaldius]

Before going with the integration:

I’m not deleting this integration for the sake of the users that have already purchased the system, however here goes my review of the product. Tons of bugs, great color representation when it works though. It’s been nothing but problems from day 1 and they ended up ingoring me as of today so I’m planning on repurposing the whole hardware to install hyperion in it. The worse thing is the company, I’m just looking up in the internet how to hurt them, how to leave some review that will really impact their bussiness in a bad way. I just hope they go bankrupt. They don’t mind if you have problems with your system. They’ll help the first two weeks, during the trial period and after that you are should better forget about them. I’ve been reseting/restarting the system an average of 3-4 times a month for a whole year and they don’t give a fuck. I’m still doing it and they have decided to ignore me. Once you release them your money, it’s just a roll of a dice. If anything goes wrong, dead money. Black bars don’t work as they should, pretty buggy firmware, very few updates. Camera doesn’t get colors from the area you choose and there’s no way to help it. In manual mode, light strip turns off every few hours and you need to go to the app to manually turn it on again, there’s no other workaround (there is in HA, like polling a turn on call every few seconds, but no for the average user). Light strip goes crazy all of a sudden strobing like nuts, needs reseting the whole system, sometimes more than 1 time. All this issues have been reported to support. Multiple promises, zero solutions. Their final solution has been to just ignore me and leave me with this piece of $h|t of device., bugged and crapped.

Go hyperion, and if you are not that kind of guy, go Govee, no brainer. Tons of happy users with govee.

It’s just a piece of sh%t of company, the most dishonest people I’ve stumbled upon.

I even suspect Hyperion is not much harder to set up than AmbiVision, it’s just a no go.

INTEGRATION

This is not an integration per se as I don’t have the skills to build it. Copying and pasting all the code below will bring a light.ambivision entity into HA controllable through the UI and service calls whithin automations.

It does go slow, but it’s a problem mainly on the device itself. Very little to do there.

If you change your settings through the app (color, brightness,mode,etc…), it won’t update in HA, so this integration is intented to replace the app altogether.

The brains is coded in Node Red. I found unsolvable issues (probably it can be done) whithin YAML. You will need NR and node-red-contrib-color-convert. Version core-2021.7 or higher is required too.

Copy this in your configuration.yaml:

light:
# Ambivision
  - platform: template
    lights:
      ambivision:
        unique_id: Ambivision PRO
        friendly_name: Ambivision PRO
        value_template: "{{states('input_boolean.ambivision_switch')}}"
        level_template: "{{states('input_number.ambivision_brightness')}}"
        supports_transition_template: false
        color_template: "({{states('input_number.ambivision_h_input') | int}}, {{states('input_number.ambivision_s_input') | int}})"
        effect_list_template: "{{state_attr('input_select.ambivision_modes', 'options')}}"
        effect_template: "{{states('input_select.ambivision_modes')}}"
        turn_on:
          service: input_boolean.turn_on
          entity_id: input_boolean.ambivision_switch
        turn_off:
          service: input_boolean.turn_off
          entity_id: input_boolean.ambivision_switch
        set_level:
          service: input_number.set_value
          data:
            entity_id: input_number.ambivision_brightness
            value: "{{brightness}}"
        set_color:
          - service: input_number.set_value
            data:
              value: "{{ h }}"
              entity_id: input_number.ambivision_h_input
          - service: input_number.set_value
            data:
              value: "{{ s }}"
              entity_id: input_number.ambivision_s_input
        set_effect:
          service: input_select.select_option
          data:
            entity_id: input_select.ambivision_modes
            option: "{{effect}}"

Declare this inputs too in your configuration.yaml:

input_boolean:
  ambivision_switch:

input_number:
  ambivision_brightness:
    min: 0
    max: 255
    step: 1
    name: ambivision brightness
  ambivision_h_input:
    min: 0
    max: 360
    step: 1
  ambivision_s_input:
    min: 0
    max: 100
    step: 1

input_select:
  ambivision_modes:
    name: ambivision modes
    options:
    - Intelligent (Capture)
    - Smooth (Capture)
    - Fast (Capture)
    - Average (Capture)
    - User (Capture)
    - Manual (Mood)
    - Fireplace (Mood)
    - Rainbow (Mood)
    - Nature (Mood)
    - Relax (Mood)
    - Level (Music)
    - Mixed (Music)
    - Lamp (Music)
    - Flash (Music)
    - Frequency (Music)

And finally the flow. Don’t forget to add the local IP of your ambivision camera whithin the udp node, top right corner of the picture. It should be working by now.

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“Manual (Mood)” needs to be enabled in order to change the color of the light. Automation example:

service: light.turn_on
data:
  entity_id: light.ambivision
  effect: Manual (Mood)
  brightness_pct: 100
  hs_color:
    - 200
    - 100

UPDATE 20/05/2022

Minor improvements in the Node Red flow. It should go faster and be more reliable but don’t expect much. To update just replace your whole NodeRed flow with the new one. Everything else stays the same.

If you want to change the entity_id, set your desired name in the configuration.yaml, restart HA.

then add the exact same entity whithin the yellow AmbiVision entity_id node. Save, deploy, done.

UPDATE 06/06/2022

Added some rate limiting rules to the NR flow, everything else stays the same. To update just replace the whole flow with the new one.

AmbiVision’s API seems to struggle from too many requests easily. From this update on only 1 call every 3 seconds is allowed. If you make more than 1 call every 3 seconds, it’ll be rate limited. Don’t force it.

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

Hey, i’m trying to apply your method because i want to integrate the AmbivisionPro in HA.
I want also to control it by voice in Google Assistant (on, off, change color, capture mode) it’s possible ?

If yes, can you please detail and explain me in a more easier way ?
I don’t understand where to add the inputs ?

Regards

[obaldius]

@Blabla4137

I want also to control it by voice in Google Assistant (on, off, change color, capture mode) it’s possible ?

First off, I have alexa, I don’t have google, so I will speak in Alexa terms.

If you have nabu casa I believe an ambivision entity will show up in your google instance and you’ll be able to control color/on/off etc commands. If you want to change modes you’ll need to create some routines or something of the like since (at least Alexa) doesn’t support changing x light to y mode.

@Blabla4137

If yes, can you please detail and explain me in a more easier way ?

To change modes, you could create a virtual device in Alexa to trigger actions in HA, for example:

node-red-contrib-amazon-echo

or

node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill

It can be done in HA itself, outside of NR I mean, it’s just I mainly use NR.

It’ll work this way. You create, for example, a virtual device called Capture Mode, preferably a light with turn on capabilites. Then in NR or HA, you create an automation/flow that when that light (Capture Mode) is turned on, you set the effect to capture mode.

@Blabla4137

I don’t understand where to add the inputs ?

Add them in your configuration.yaml file

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

Hey,

Thank you for your return (I’m sorry it took me a long time to come back…).

I managed to set up the ambivision in HA, I installed Node-RED and configured everything as it should.

On the other hand, it is impossible for me to assign the “light.ambivision” entity to a room in HA. Is this normal ? Do you have a solution for this ?

Also when you say ""Manual (Mood)” needs to be enabled in order to change the color of the light. Automation example: xxx ", I understand where you are coming from, but what is the automation trigger? I’m not sure to understand exactly…

I have a problem to get it to work in HA… I have followed your tutorial but when i switch on my Ambivision by HA, it don’t light on…

If i’m correct,
1: Add informations and inputs too in my configuration.yaml
2: Install Nodes and node-red-contrib-color-convert
3: Add your flow in nodes
4: Add the IP of my Ambivision in the flow
5: Add the ambivision to my overview
6: Restart my HA (in case of…)

But my Ambivision don’t answer to the commands in HA.

Do you have an idea ?

[obaldius]

What HA versión are you running? From where are you trying to turn on the light? Lovelace?
Could yo do this? Open NR. Tweak some settings manually, change color and whatever. Share a sceenshot of the whole flow to check whether it’s working at all.

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

I’m running Home Assistant 2022.3.5 on a Raspberry.
I’m trying to turn on the light on Lovelace with a card added :

We can see that the light is on on HA but in reality, the light is off.

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

It seems that the service is called when i modify the card on Lovelace but nothing happen.

I don’t know really how to use Node RED… To test if it react with the light…

[obaldius]

Just wondering, did you change the entity_id of the light? the “light.ambivision” I mean.

EDIT:

Could you do this?

Go to Developer tools/events. Set Event to subscribe to to call_service. Click Start listening. Toggle the ambivision light, then stop listening and find among all the events the one that’s using the light.ambivision as the entity_id. Copy that single event from start to finish and paste it here.

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

Yes i changed the entity_id, it can be a problem you think ?

I think it’s that :

{
    "event_type": "call_service",
    "data": {
        "domain": "light",
        "service": "turn_on",
        "service_data": {
            "entity_id": "light.le_bandeau",
            "effect": "Manual (Mood)"
        }
    },
    "origin": "LOCAL",
    "time_fired": "2022-03-16T00:33:52.002888+00:00",
    "context": {
        "id": "53342c117417bf712911440b0c7646c7",
        "parent_id": null,
        "user_id": "8ec3cbb53d8d4afaa1b24a80358dfff7"
    }
}

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

Ok, i renamed the id of the light by “ambivision” and now it seems to work… (I’m trying all to confirm)

[Edit]: Ok all seems to be working correctly.

When i’m in capture mode and if i change the color by voice on Google Assistant, it change the color automatically. I don’t need to change any mode or parameters, it’s perfect !

I just need to do a routine to change the modes (essentially capture mode).

A big big thank you

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

Oh, last question…

Do you know if it’s possible to assign the light to an area ?

I can for the inputs but i can’t for the light :

If i click on the light, i have the message " This entity (‘light.ambivision’) does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI. See the documentation for more detail."

I think it’s not possible but maybe there is an other solution ?

[obaldius]

I’m glad it’s working. I’m not sure about that problem with the area but since it’s spitting that message, add a unique id in your config. For example:

light:
# Ambivision
  - platform: template
    lights:
      ambivision:
        unique_id: Le bandeau
        friendly_name: Ambivision PRO
        value_template: "{{states('input_boolean.ambivision_switch')}}"
        [...]

If you come upon any problem please let me know so I can polish the code. It should last forever since Ambivision aren’t too much into updates and this API is 100% local.

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

@obaldius

unique_id: Le bandeau

Thank you, your solution with “unique_id” is working, i can assign the light to an area now !

If i see a problem, i come back to you

[obaldius]

Hi there. It’s been a couple of months, just wondering, is there anything you’d like to see improved? any problem?

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

Hey, all seems to be ok for me… If there is the possibility to add the Ambivision Pro by the interface and not via the config.yaml it could be cool and more clean but i don’t know if it’s possible.

Actually i have this in my config.yaml and it takes 50% of the file…

light:
# Ambivision
  - platform: template
    lights:
      ambivision:
        unique_id: Le bandeau
        friendly_name: Le bandeau
        value_template: "{{states('input_boolean.ambivision_switch')}}"
        level_template: "{{states('input_number.ambivision_brightness')}}"
        supports_transition_template: false
        color_template: "({{states('input_number.ambivision_h_input') | int}}, {{states('input_number.ambivision_s_input') | int}})"
        effect_list_template: "{{state_attr('input_select.ambivision_modes', 'options')}}"
        effect_template: "{{states('input_select.ambivision_modes')}}"
        turn_on:
          service: input_boolean.turn_on
          entity_id: input_boolean.ambivision_switch
        turn_off:
          service: input_boolean.turn_off
          entity_id: input_boolean.ambivision_switch
        set_level:
          service: input_number.set_value
          data:
            entity_id: input_number.ambivision_brightness
            value: "{{brightness}}"
        set_color:
          - service: input_number.set_value
            data:
              value: "{{ h }}"
              entity_id: input_number.ambivision_h_input
          - service: input_number.set_value
            data:
              value: "{{ s }}"
              entity_id: input_number.ambivision_s_input
        set_effect:
          service: input_select.select_option
          data:
            entity_id: input_select.ambivision_modes
            option: "{{effect}}"

input_boolean:
  ambivision_switch:

input_number:
  ambivision_brightness:
    min: 0
    max: 255
    step: 1
    name: ambivision brightness
  ambivision_h_input:
    min: 0
    max: 360
    step: 1
  ambivision_s_input:
    min: 0
    max: 100
    step: 1

input_select:
  ambivision_modes:
    name: ambivision modes
    options:
    - Intelligent (Capture)
    - Smooth (Capture)
    - Fast (Capture)
    - Average (Capture)
    - User (Capture)
    - Manual (Mood)
    - Fireplace (Mood)
    - Rainbow (Mood)
    - Nature (Mood)
    - Relax (Mood)
    - Level (Music)
    - Mixed (Music)
    - Lamp (Music)
    - Flash (Music)
    - Frequency (Music)

[obaldius]

I’m glad it’s working as expected.

@Blabla4137

If there is the possibility to add the Ambivision Pro by the interface and not via the config.yaml it could be cool and more clean but i don’t know if it’s possible.

I’m afraid I don’t have the skills to do that and don’t expect to have them anytime soon.

[Blabla4137 (Blabla)]

No problem it’s working like that and it’s perfect
Without you, my Ambivision Pro would not be connected to HA !

[obaldius]

Flow updated. Instructions on how to change the entity_id in the first post too

[TheLaw (Christopher)]

Does this config work for you on the latest HA? I can’t get it to work.

[obaldius]

currently on 2022.11 so I can’t tell you about that, sorry. As soon as I update I’ll update the flow too if it stops working for me. It might take a long time though…