Circadian Lighting [Custom Component]

jleino · September 8, 2022, 6:53pm

Seems that this is because of (deprecated?) ATTR_WHITE_VALUE parameter. I got mine working again with this first aid. Perhaps a proper patch should be done (this removes the XY mode that I don’t use).

diff --git a/custom_components/circadian_lighting/switch.py b/custom_components/circadian_lighting/switch.py
index 7c5b6cc..6357ab0 100644
--- a/custom_components/circadian_lighting/switch.py
+++ b/custom_components/circadian_lighting/switch.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from homeassistant.components.light import (
     ATTR_COLOR_TEMP,
     ATTR_RGB_COLOR,
     ATTR_TRANSITION,
-    ATTR_WHITE_VALUE,
+    #ATTR_WHITE_VALUE,
     ATTR_XY_COLOR,
 )
 from homeassistant.components.light import DOMAIN as LIGHT_DOMAIN
@@ -362,10 +362,10 @@ class CircadianSwitch(SwitchEntity, RestoreEntity):
             elif light_type == "rgb":
                 r, g, b = self._calc_rgb()
                 service_data[ATTR_RGB_COLOR] = (int(r), int(g), int(b))
-            elif light_type == "xy":
-                service_data[ATTR_XY_COLOR] = self._calc_xy()
-                if service_data.get(ATTR_BRIGHTNESS, False):
-                    service_data[ATTR_WHITE_VALUE] = service_data[ATTR_BRIGHTNESS]
+            #elif light_type == "xy":
+                #service_data[ATTR_XY_COLOR] = self._calc_xy()
+                #if service_data.get(ATTR_BRIGHTNESS, False):
+                #    service_data[ATTR_WHITE_VALUE] = service_data[ATTR_BRIGHTNESS]
 
             _LOGGER.debug(
                 "Scheduling 'light.turn_on' with the following 'service_data': %s",

claytonjn · September 9, 2022, 4:08pm

There is a new version that was released a week ago which fixes this issue.

manjulapra · September 13, 2022, 12:06pm

How do I set up Cercradian lighting only to adjust the color temperature, not the brightness? Let the brightness be determined by the last value or whatever is set by the UI.

TIA

radischem · September 13, 2022, 9:49pm

I saw a video about light adjustments, which I never really thought of tbh. It showed Circadian and I installed it an it works nicely on my hue and IKEA lamps - well, I installed it today, but hey, it works.

Another reason after a little research (as dumb as it may sound): I prefer having one sensor and a switch for groups rather than having endless entities I’m not using. That’s just me keeping it simple, but still a valid reason for me.

First thoughts on why putting Adaptive Lighting and Circadian together might make sense:

more people working on all the features people like to have
more stability and options to react to HA updates without added workload for both developers
some users may not like the manual work in Circadian while AL has sliders
features such as settings individual for each light rather than main settings in configuration.yaml

All that said: I have no experience in programming other than HA yaml and in no way are trying to tell you what to do! I just saw your question and wanted to give my input.

So far all I can say is thank you for a feature I never knew I needed

claytonjn · September 15, 2022, 10:31pm

disable_brightness_adjust

mwthrane · October 20, 2022, 9:42am

Hello

I can’t figure out how to use disable_state

This is my config

  - platform: circadian_lighting
    name: "Circadian Noras værelse"
    disable_entity:
      - input_boolean.sovetid_nora
    disable_state: on
    lights_ct:
      - light.noras_loftlampe_01

HA gives an error when i add the disables.

Invalid config for [switch.circadian_lighting]: value should be a string for dictionary value @ data['disable_entity']. Got ['input_boolean.sovetid_nora']. (See ?, line ?).

Any ideas?

claytonjn · October 20, 2022, 1:11pm

disable_entity only support a single entity, so it needs to be configured this way:

- platform: circadian_lighting
    name: "Circadian Noras værelse"
    disable_entity: input_boolean.sovetid_nora
    disable_state: on
    lights_ct:
      - light.noras_loftlampe_01

This component was written before frontend integrations UI existed and I thought it would be too confusing to configure multiple entities and their various states in YAML. I actually have regretted adding the disable_[…] options because it’s trivial to create automations that do the same thing and that approach provides significantly more advanced options.

mwthrane · November 3, 2022, 1:10pm

Thank you for replying. I tried what you wrote here, but the file editor does not agree with the formatting.
I tried this:

  - platform: circadian_lighting
    name: "Circadian Noras værelse"
    disable_entity: input_boolean.sovetid_nora
    disable_state: on
    lights_ct:
     - light.noras_loftlampe_01

This does not give me an error but it also does not work.
If the boolean is on the circadian switch is still on.
Any ideas?

I tried other methods of turning on/off the circadian switch on automation but i cannot ofr the life of me figure out how to change the state.

claytonjn · November 3, 2022, 2:39pm

This is expected, the switch will still be on but shouldn’t actually do anything to change the lights. I can’t have the disable_entity actually turn off the switch because when the switch is off there is no way for the switch to turn itself back on (at least that was the case when the code was written) - This is part of why I want to remove this functionality completely; it is a very confusing experience for users.

It’s just a regular switch, so a service call to switch.turn_on or switch.turn_off should be all that’s required.

mwthrane · November 4, 2022, 11:19am

It’s just a regular switch, so a service call to switch.turn_on or switch.turn_off should be all that’s required.

I had no idea. I’ll just use that. Thank you.

alex-vyverman · December 23, 2022, 5:15pm

Hi!
I have IKEA Tradfri RGB GU10’s connected trough ZHA.
I’m noticing something annoying. Each time CL applies the Color temperature, the light dims and then slowly creeps up.
Other types of lights don’t show this behaviour, but I have no idea where to start looking to fix this (drives my wife crazy).

To clear, I have disabled dimming (as I don’t want that).

This is my config:

circadian_lighting:
  min_colortemp: 2800
  interval: 90

switch:
  - platform: circadian_lighting
    disable_brightness_adjust: true
    lights_ct:
      - light.tv_kamer_spots_raam
      - light.ledstrip_tv_light

claytonjn · December 24, 2022, 9:40pm

Do these GU10s do the same thing when you adjust them from the Home Assistant dashboard or with a light.turn_on service call? For the service call, it would be good to test both with and without specifying a transition.

alex-vyverman · December 25, 2022, 12:18am

Thanks for the response @claytonjn,

Do these GU10s do the same thing when you adjust them from the Home Assistant dashboard

When I change the color temperature slider in HA, the issue does not occur.

For the service call, it would be good to test both with and without specifying a transition.

Good call!
If I call the service with

service: light.turn_on
data:
  kelvin: 2800
  transition: 0
target:
  entity_id:
    - light.tv_kamer_raam_spot_1_light_2

It works without the issue, and applied the values straight away.
However, with:

service: light.turn_on
data:
  kelvin: 2800
  transition: 1
target:
  entity_id:
    - light.tv_kamer_raam_spot_1_light_2

I get a 1 second pumping effect, or:

service: light.turn_on
data:
  kelvin: 2600
  transition: 10
target:
  entity_id:
    - light.tv_kamer_raam_spot_1_light_2

It slowely creeps up, just like the issue I’m describing, so it seems it is indeed the transition time, as what you were alluding to.

So I’ve added a transition time of 0 in the config:

circadian_lighting:
  min_colortemp: 2200
  interval: 10
  transition: 0

And now all is well!
Many thanks for leading the way

Tahutipai · January 23, 2023, 8:07pm

I’m just wondering how this compares generally to adaptive lighting? (I haven’t used that yet).

Are both very similar in function? Is there any reason to use one over the other?

sparkydave · January 24, 2023, 7:36am

If I remember correctly Adaptive Lighting was basically a fork and upgrade of Circadian Lighting. I started with Circadian Lighting and moved across to Adaptive.

claytonjn · January 26, 2023, 8:50pm

A couple years ago basnijholt made a bunch of great contributions to Circadian Lighting and then wanted to get it added as an official integration (which I have also wanted but had been unsuccessful with previously because it doesn’t really fit with the “master plan” for Home Assistant). As part of the work to get it officially supported, basnijholt created Adaptive Lighting and made a bunch of changes, including moving to UI Integration configuration, which I have not had time to implement. I don’t know what other differences there are with respect to features/behavior - the adjustments of lights is one of the single-most important features of my home automation and CL is tailor made for my use-case (while also trying to support as many features for other users as possible) so I have never considered switching to Adaptive Lighting.

sup3rmark · January 30, 2023, 11:27pm

hey clayton, thanks for sharing this with us. i’m really enjoying using circadian lighting to keep the brightness/color temp of my lights managed throughout the day for maximum effectiveness!

one thing i was wondering about - would it be possible to pull in outside brightness levels from a sensor, and use that to determine the brightness? i have an AmbientWeather weather station that reports solar radiation in lux and in W/m², and would like to be able to leverage that instead of the time-of-day calculations, as this would also take the weather into account (i.e. if there’s a storm that’s making it darker than normal outside for this time, the lights can stand to be a little dimmer than the time between sunrise/sunset would suggest).

thanks!

claytonjn · February 4, 2023, 5:18pm

This has been requested before and I haven’t added this functionality for two reasons:

It would take a while for me to extrapolate a brightness percentage to set lights from a lux value, and whatever I choose for my location probably wouldn’t translate well to other locations. I could make this configurable but that adds more complexity to a system that already has a confusing amount of settings.
The main function of the integration is to maintain a consistent circadian cycle for personal wellness (e.g. I’m prone to migraines and having the lights adjust color temperature and brightness in a consistent way has significantly reduced how frequently I get them). Adjusting based on lux would make the lights better align with outside conditions, but would also make them less consistent as day-to-day the behavior would change based on weather conditions.

I’m not completely disregarding this feature request, but that’s my reasoning for not adding it yet.

sapnho · June 9, 2023, 8:26pm

Circadian Lighting stopped working for me after the 2023.6.1 update. Has anybody experienced the same thing?

domored · June 11, 2023, 9:59am

Forgot to update from hacs