I have a magichome based led controller, which uses the flux_led platform. I can manually control brightness and colors from the HA interface, however, I can’t seem to get transitions to work. I make a service call to ‘homeassistant’, with ‘turn_on’ or turn_off’ as the service, and the following as the service data: {“entity_id”:“light.bed_led”,“transition”:“10”}
When I call the service, it just turns the LED on or off, but doesn’t do the transition. Am I doing something wrong here?
Sometimes the platform supports transition but not the hardware. For instance, Wink hubs do not support transition either.
That’s what my further research is indicating as well. Is there any way I can do this via HA automation and scripting? For example, every weekday at 5:30am, set the brightness to increase by one ever 3 seconds until it reaches 255.
You can definitely leverage the delay feature of scripts and automations to accomplish this brute force style.
I’ve got one of those Ali-express RGB led-strips on wifi and these seem to transition perfectly themself (with changing color, turning off, those strobe effect), but can’t we transition with a simple script loop if not supported by a device itself? (also I get no effect whilst the device has some, pretty horrible, effects)… oh dec 16 as in 2016… not the 16th of december… hmmm
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Did anyone found some solution?
I can set transition in app from 1 min to 100 min and turn off phone. It’s in controller so such function have to be there.
Doing this by script have hard limitation as script can’t be too long…
I’m tackling this problem at the moment with the Xiaomi Gateway light… does not appear to support transitions.
I am thinking of writing some python code in AppDaemon which will look at the current brightness and RGB, and perform many incremental light changes to the target state… this should work but it’s not really a solution for everyone due to the degree of difficulty.