🎥 Movie Mode Light Control

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I’m excited to share my new blueprint: Movie Mode Light Control, designed to help automate your movie nights by dimming the environment when your movie starts — and bringing everything back to life when you pause or stop.

:movie_camera: What It Does

This blueprint detects when your media player (e.g., TV or streaming device) starts playing and:

  • Sends a notification asking if you want to activate Movie Mode.
  • Turns off selected lights or switches automatically when Movie Mode is enabled.
  • Restores your previous light/switch states when the movie is paused or stopped.
  • Automatically disables Movie Mode when the media ends or stops.
  • Only activates after a specific time (e.g., after 9:00 PM) to avoid triggering during the day.

:brain: How It Works

It uses a combination of:

  • media_player state triggers (Playing, Paused, Idle, etc.)
  • An input_boolean helper to track Movie Mode status.
  • Optional notify service to ask for user confirmation (e.g., via mobile app).
  • Customizable activation time.

You can also customize:

  • Notification target (e.g., mobile_app_yourphone)
  • Notification title & message
  • Trigger states for play, pause, and off
  • Lights/switches to be controlled

:jigsaw: Inputs Required

  • Media Player Entity (e.g., your TV or streaming stick)
  • Trigger states (playing, paused, idle, etc.)
  • Movie Mode Helper (input_boolean)
  • Notification Target (optional)
  • Lights/Switches to control
  • Activation time (e.g., 21:00)

:rocket: How to Use

Open your Home Assistant instance and show the blueprint import dialog with a specific blueprint pre-filled.
Github

  1. Add this blueprint
  2. Fill in the fields with your media player, lights, and notification settings.
  3. Enjoy hands-free ambience for your movie nights!
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Hey just curious on how to save with out entering in a notification target i keep getting this error: muratcesmecioglu/movie-mode.yaml and you do say it is not required, sorry im new to this thanks! Also yhe input Boolean is that something I need to setup?

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Looks really good, but is there way to just dim the lights and not turn them off without a separate automation based on the movie mode helper?

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Sorry about notification system. I updated blueprint. Can you try again?

You need to create a helper input boolean to track whether you are in movie mode or not.

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This will be on next version because i don’t have any dimmable light to test yet.

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Sounds good :slight_smile: