Automatic Lighting Algorithm?

Does anyone have a really polished appdaemon algorithm or just some complex yaml that’ll turn on your lights based on light sensors, cloud cover, rain, time of day, etc.?

I have something pretty basic in place but I’d love to see what everyone else is running because mine is far from perfect.

i have several apps running my lights, based on the different input.
1 app for turning lights on automaticly at a certain time (basen on sunset)
1 app for turning them on and off based on lightlevels outside and inside
1 app to turn them on or off based on Alexa input
1 app to turn them on or off based on certain motion detection
1 app for morning rituals

would be very complicated to show that all here.

Do you have your config uploaded to GitHub?

Understandable. Sounds like just what I was looking for though!

only 1 of those apps if i am not mistaken.
but not the settings that belong to all of them.

automations are like building blocks.
you better create/ start using and adapting them 1 at a time.

There is a motion_lights.py example app in the appdaemon repository. If you start with that you can add any other things you need.

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