There are always hundred ways to reach your goal. Especially when you have the flexibility of NR. You can find Here several options to schedule events or lights you can even get the info from HA if you prefer.
I did individual light scheduling at beginning as well. Im using now a general Light scheduler to decide in what time frame I want to allow the light Automation to happen. Than I respond to events like
someone entering the room (via motion sensor )
opening or closing a door (via door/window sensor)
switching off/on living room light when Kodi is playing/stoping (see above)
responding to Alexa commands
etc
Every light has its individual timer which is adjustable either via UI or Alexa. For any event the light turns on and starts the timer and gets reset when another event is triggered. The light is switching off when the timer has completed or an Off event or command is given.
I have done a more complex movie mode where the light is changing based on what is playing (Movie, TV-Series or normal TV). The state is given by the Kodi node. E.g When any Movie or TV-series is playing, than the main light turns off and the tv-ambilight is started.whenever the movie is paused, the light level returns to 50%. Oh yes, I forgot. I have a motion sensor at the backstory.whenever the dogs want out and waiting in front of the door, a message is displayed in Kodi, and the movie gets paused.
As said, there is almost no limit on what to automate and you don’t really need programming skills (for most cases). Programming skills are helpful to make your code easier, but usually you can achieve your goal with the onboarding tools and a good sense of logic. Just dont over complicate your automation at the beginning!,
Though I am struggling with the Movie Light automation in the Pi NR. I am searching for a ‘call service’ type node that I use in HA but not having much luck. Is there such a thing available for Pi NR?
I am trying to emulate this…
I have HA running in a VM on my Qnap Nas and I notice the ram usage is 80%. So my ultimate goal is the have NR running on my Pi and removing NR and possibly HA from my nas and also deleting the VM as I use this nas to store and stream my media library.
In my example above from HA, when I turn on the HT Power from Hue app it in turn, turns on the HT Lights and Millen Falc switch - I use a call service node in HR to do this.
Then when we start watching shows the Kodi HT call service turns lights off or on depending the state of Kodi, playing, paused or idle.
Now, last night I received my Nvidia Shield TV Pro and have set it up to stream all media from NAS boxes and also all online services I subscribe to eg: Netflix, Prime Video and soon Disney+ (we get this next week in Oz) - Netflix will more than likely be cancelled at the end of this billing period.
So this means I want to have the HT lights behave as mentioned in the paragraph above, but now do so from the Shield TV.
