HA setup for home theater lighting

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Ok, Hopfully I am in the right place, as other forums have been dead ends.

I setup HA on my unraid server for doing lighting automations in my home theater. I am trying to setup lights turning on and off with the system, dimming on movie play, lights up on pause, and lights up on movie stop.

I have been able to get everything working* except for the lights up on movie end/stop. There is no trigger option for stop.

  • am also having issues with dimming % as I end up doing a “brightness decrease” but have to setup a repeat action to get it to do enough, but it seems to do different amounts of dimming sometimes, not very consistent. Is there a better way? I’m fairly tech savvy, but very new to HA so any help would be appreciated.

I currently have a few govee lights that have the API option for testing. would different lights offer more options?

Let me know, thanks!

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I use scenes with transitions triggered by play, pause and idle.

action:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - play
        sequence:
          - data:
              transition: 5
            target:
              entity_id: scene.film
            action: scene.turn_on
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - pause
        sequence:
          - data:
              transition: 5
            target:
              entity_id: scene.night
            action: scene.turn_on
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - idle
        sequence:
          - data:
              transition: 5
            target:
              entity_id: scene.night
            action: scene.turn_on
mode: single
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What are you getting the idle trigger from? Have tried that from several devices and the “lights up on stop/end” does not get triggered.

4

Hi @XDUDE3D what are you using to watch on in your theatre? I personally have Apple TV and have done something similar. The Apple TV when integrated with the Apple Homekit integration exposes Idle, Paused, Playing, etc.

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Currently its plex on an nvidia shield. Have tried the “idle” trigger for both plex and the shield but no luck.

6

Have you watched the log book of your Nvidia Shield integration and seen what events fire during what you want to trigger your automation?

7

For some reason my shield’s authentication expired and I can’t get the code to pop up on the shield to re enable it… let me get this worked out then I will check the logs and double check I’m not missing something.

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It’s from the states of the Apple TV’s I am using as a media player.

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Logs for the shield are only turn on and off events, it does not show any other events… is there a setting in the shield i need to enable for it to broadcast all events? and when plex is stopped, the log just says “became unavailable” but that’s not a state i can trigger off of…

Starting to wonder if my issues are player based… I am thinking about getting a zidoo UHD8000 player, wondering if that will broadcast more detailed events to trigger off of…

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I’ll be honest I have yet to integrate an Android TV with HA but this integration while it has a little manual configuration involved might be helpful if you’ve not filled this already.
Android TV ADB
Here’s is a doc that describes the App configs Plex App Android TV

Configuration.yaml snippet

media_player:

  - platform: androidtv
    host: !secret shield_shield_tv_ip
    name: "shield Shield"
    adb_server_ip: 127.0.0.1
    adb_server_port: 5037
    apps:
      "com.plexapp.android": "Plex"

Let me know if this helps?

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Thanks for the info, from what I can tell that helps with allowing HA to work with installed apps but does not really change the status of the apps to allow triggering. Unless I missed something… I have heard people have gotten the fade on stop/credits but I cant find out how they did it. I’m ripping my hair out trying to figure this out.

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Found this:

But really would like to us HA and not a web based 3rd party to relay the triggers… Making progress but still all this trouble for the “lights up on stop/credits/end” as all the other triggers I got working good enough for now.