Kodi / LibreElec trigger lights, only for media over 60 minutes in length?

Configuration
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platform: device
device_id: ec27768ae1c9094da87ea2ed71f1cf27
domain: media_player
entity_id: media_player.libreelec
type: playing
for:
  hours: 1
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 0
  milliseconds: 0

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This works if I set the time to nothing but zeroes, however then the lights fade even when my wife watches terrible TV shows.

We only want the lights to enter “movie mode” when a movie begins (average length of film is at least 70 to 300 minutes) the TV shows are all less than this, so that would be perfect.

Can I do that?
If I can’t no big deal, but it would be nice,

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You’ll need a condition that contains the media playing length. Does Kodi expose that ? If yes , easy doing. If no, challenge ahead

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Any idea where I should start looking for that?

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Dev tools menu, States tab. Find Kodi entities and have media playing. Search for media info and something that relates to timeduration for that media

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Kodi has the following attribute: media_content_type
Create a condition: if media_content_type = movie

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I just found that myself, yeah thanks!

Hey so smart people how do set a condition, to only apply my new movie mode automation, if the libreelec content playing

media_content_type = movie
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condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.kodi
    state: movie
    attribute: media_content_type
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It spat this back at me, am I doing something incorrectly?
I figured out the triger and I’ve tested it but I don’t know about the condition formatting?

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Select the 3 Dots in the top right corner to edit the total automation. Or start a movie so you can select the attribute from the dropdown ui menu

Condition > state > select kodi device > select media_content_type > movie

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I think you have doubled up on conditions. Should be just

condition: state
entity_id: media_player.libreelec
state: movie
attribute: media_content_type
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Well it no longer fails to save but it doesn’t work, odd.

alias: All warm soft colour - movie mode!
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: device
    device_id: ec27768ae1c9094da87ea2ed71f1XXXX
    domain: media_player
    entity_id: media_player.libreelec
    type: playing
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.libreelec
    state: movie
    attribute: media_content_type
action:
  - service: light.turn_on
(etc etc blah blah)

Clearing the condition works, too, so I know the trigger is ok.

volume_level: 1
is_volume_muted: false
media_content_id:
  unknown: tt0053285
media_content_type: movie
media_duration: 4510
media_position: 0
media_position_updated_at: '2021-09-15T06:06:39.513582+00:00'
media_title: Sleeping Beauty
media_album_name: ''
media_series_title: ''
media_season: -1
media_episode: -1
friendly_name: LibreELEC
entity_picture: >-
  /api/media_player_proxy/media_player.libreelec?token=4eb0f5bc955897XXXXXX2c4003851c85ba8fd574fb889c46b7711c1c591&cache=e417ce168697b3bb
supported_features: 186303

I wonder if it’s because state = playing?
state does not = “media_content_type: movie” ?
It’s not reading the correct attibute or something, I figure?

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I found when doing a similar thing that there was a slight delay between playing starting and media_content_type being set. I think a 1 second delay solved it.

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Gents and all, thanks - I’m up and running.

I’ll look into reverting the lights on a pause or end of the movie, but I suspect that’s particularly more advanced. Right now I’m happy as it is.

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Yeah I just go to a dimmish state when paused (on the basis you don’t need to blind yourself when just going to get more drinks/popcorn) and back to full on stop. Not too complex, but then again I am not distinguishing between movie and the wife’s crap TV :slight_smile: