Apply service with data property turn_on_lights set to yes
Thanks!
service: adaptive_lighting.apply
target: {}
data:
entity_id: switch.adaptive_lighting_bathroom_light
turn_on_lights: true
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Hi @dbrunt,
thanks so much for the hint. Yes that is the culprit.
I tested it in multiple rooms and it is like this:
The lights turn on via lights.turn_on that is triggered via an automation, either by pressing a light switch or motion sensor.
Instantly when the lights go on it shows the lights under manual control.
These are my settings
What I don’t understand is why apparently the take_over_control is executed. My understanding is that this would only be the case if the lights have been turned on via lights.turn_on and being adapted and then another source calls them. But that is not the case.
Unless what happens is this: The lights are turned on the first time. Then they are turned off e.g. by motion clear after a while. However in the background even the lights are off AL is still running them as being adapted somehow. Then the lights are triggered again via the automation it sees this as another source call and turns on manual. Or am I completely off here.
All in all the manual take over is a bit of a mystery to me.
Update: I have now disabled the take_over_control in all rooms. So manual controls should not become active anymore unless I actively call the service in my automation which I don’t.
But for whatever reason the manual controls is getting activated again!!! WTF???
How can this be. I am honestly going crazy with this integration and I am about to delete it and go back to my manual automations.
This option means AL stops adapting the light if something turns on the light while the light is already on and AL is adapting it. This allows you to set the brightness/color and AL will no longer adapt it. The light has be turned off and back at which point AL will resume adapting it.
This means AL stops adapting the light if a source outside of HA turns on/adjusts the light i.e. a physical control or another platform which communicates directlt with the light. When the light reports a state change to HA, AL stops adapting it.
This allows you to automatically turn off manual control after xx seconds and AL will resume adapting it.
Are you using transition?? I gave up trying to use transition as it was always a nightmare for me.
Hypothesis: If the light has a built-in mechanism for transition delay (i.e. take 5 seconds to adjust to new brightness/color) and it reports intermediate settings (i.e. updates current brightness/color every second) then AL will see those intermediate states as a “something else is controlling the light” and will flip to manual mode.
My Zooz dimmer has settings for transition/fade and also only report the final state but even after considering all the factors, things were not working right for me.
If this were the case then AL would have somehow missed the “turned off” in which case the next AL update would turn the lights back on.
Thanks @dbrunt for the ideas and hints
Ok I have done some more investigation and testing:
When I turn on the light e.g. with my light switch which is most reliable for testing the following happens:
- automation fires lights.turn_on
- Lights in the room turn on (not adjusting)
- All lights show up under manual control
- I turn off the lights with the switch. lights.turn_off is fired
- Lights turn off
- Lights disappear under manual control
I also experimented with changing the adapt delay to compensate for any transition delay that the lights could have on their own (between 0 and 5). I also played with the transition in the AL settings between 0 and 2 to make sure that does not cause issues. Take over control is disabled.
But the result is always the same as outlined above.
So something must cause the the manual setting after the fact, but I have no clue what it could be besides AL itself.
Also the turn off of the manual control works when the lights are turned off, so there is no issue there.
Another update: I have gone thru the debug logs. One thing I found was this
[custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Bathroom: Config mismatch:
detect_non_ha_changesoradapt_only_on_bare_turn_onset totruerequirestake_over_controlto be enabled. Adjusting config and continuing setup withtake_over_control: true.
So that explains why the manual takeover still happened. I turned off also the “only bare turn on” setting to test and voila the lights no longer show as manual.
So one mystery solved. However I still don’t get what is causing the manual to take over in the first place.
I also found an interesting line in the logs
[custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Detected an ‘off’ → ‘on’ event for ‘light.living_room_arc_lamp’ …, triggered by the adaptive_lighting integration itself, which should not happen. If you see this please submit an issue with your full logs at GitHub - basnijholt/adaptive-lighting: Adaptive Lighting custom component for Home Assistant
Actually I saw this post that I had overlooked before and gave it a try.
I modified my automations (motion and switches) to the adaptive lighting service instead of the lights turn on and with that it finally works!!
Also switched off the intercept.
Thanks so much!
Adaptive Lighting is working well on a number of lights I’m using, but for some WLED strips, I’m finding that the manual control kicks in unexpectedly and prevents further updates. The setup on these strips is a bit complex, but enacts the following flow:
- The lights configured in Adaptive Lighting are template lights.
- These template lights run a script for on/off/set level/set temperature commands.
- The script fires an event to send the necessary info to Node Red.
- Node Red takes the temperature, and derives two RGB values with a slight offset either side of the set temperature.
- Node Red formats the two RGB values into a JSON request direct to the WLED strip to apply the “Lake” effect with the primary and tertiary colours (the secondary colour is the background, so always remains black)
I know this is very convoluted, but it was the only way I found that could support adaptive lighting in conjunction with multiple colours being sent to a WLED effect - just using the native integration only allows a single colour/temperature, or a preset palette (which won’t work unless you create hundreds of palettes for each temp adaptive lighting might send).
The Home Assistant side of things is set up with the following YAML:
light:
- platform: template
lights:
toms_bedhead_blob:
value_template: >
{% set state = states('light.toms_bedhead') == 'on' %}
{% set effect = state_attr('light.toms_bedhead','effect') == 'Lake' %}
{% if state and effect %}
on
{% else %}
off
{% endif %}
level_template: "{{ state_attr('light.toms_bedhead','brightness') }}"
temperature_template: "{{ states('input_number.toms_bedhead_temperature') }}"
turn_on:
service: script.wled_blob
data:
command: "turn_on"
color_temp: "{{ color_temp | default( states('input_number.toms_bedhead_temperature') ) }}"
brightness: "{{ brightness | default( state_attr('light.toms_bedhead','brightness') ) }}"
ip_address: "192.168.0.86"
turn_off:
service: script.wled_blob
data:
command: "turn_off"
ip_address: "192.168.0.86"
set_level:
service: script.wled_blob
data:
command: "set_level"
brightness: "{{ brightness }}"
ip_address: "192.168.0.86"
set_temperature:
- service: script.wled_blob
data:
command: "set_temperature"
color_temp: "{{ color_temp }}"
brightness: "{{ brightness }}"
ip_address: "192.168.0.86"
- service: input_number.set_value
target:
entity_id: input_number.toms_bedhead_temperature
data:
value: "{{ color_temp }}"
input_number:
toms_bedhead_temperature:
name: Toms Bedhead Temperature
min: 153
max: 500
script:
wled_blob:
alias: WLED Blob
mode: parallel
sequence:
- event: node_red.wled_blob
event_data:
command: "{{ command }}"
color_temp: "{{ color_temp | default( states('input_number.toms_bedhead_temperature') ) }}"
brightness: "{{ brightness | default( state_attr('light.toms_bedhead','brightness') ) }}"
ip_address: "{{ ip_address }}"
adaptive_lighting:
- name: Toms Bedhead Blob
lights:
- light.toms_bedhead_blob
prefer_rgb_color: false
separate_turn_on_commands: false
interval: 5
transition: 1
sunrise_time: '08:00:00'
sunset_time: '19:00:00'
min_brightness: 25
max_brightness: 100
The Node Red flow is as follows:
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A sample of the adaptive lighting and wled logs follow, but I couldn’t find the correct logging to get the template lights to also appear, which I think might be most useful to understand what’s making the change that triggers manual control:
2024-05-17 20:37:26.843 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Toms Bedhead Blob: '_update_attrs_and_maybe_adapt_lights' called with context.id='01HY321JDV:al:KRXW:ntrv:7E' lights: 'None', transition: '1.0', force: 'False'
2024-05-17 20:37:26.844 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Toms Bedhead Blob: filtered_lights: '[]'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.272 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] (0) _service_interceptor_turn_on_handler: call.context.id='01HY321MSPNQW6VE2DPYQW4TMG', is_skipped_hash='False'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.272 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] (1) _service_interceptor_turn_on_handler: call='<ServiceCall light.turn_on (c:01HY321MSPNQW6VE2DPYQW4TMG): entity_id=['light.toms_bedhead_blob'], params=>', service_data='{'entity_id': ['light.toms_bedhead_blob'], 'params': {}}'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.274 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] (2) _service_interceptor_turn_on_handler: switch_to_eids='{'Adaptive Lighting: Toms Bedhead Blob': ['light.toms_bedhead_blob']}', skipped='[]'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.275 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] (3) _service_interceptor_turn_on_handler: intercepting entity_ids='['light.toms_bedhead_blob']'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.276 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Intercepted TURN_ON call with data {'params': {}, 'entity_id': ['light.toms_bedhead_blob']} (01HY321MSPNQW6VE2DPYQW4TMG)
2024-05-17 20:37:29.281 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Toms Bedhead Blob: Setting color_temp of light light.toms_bedhead_blob
2024-05-17 20:37:29.282 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.adaptation_utils] Preparing adaptation data for light.toms_bedhead_blob with service data {'entity_id': 'light.toms_bedhead_blob', 'brightness': 171, 'color_temp_kelvin': 2000}
2024-05-17 20:37:29.282 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Detected an 'light.turn_on('['light.toms_bedhead_blob']')' event with context.id='01HY321MSPNQW6VE2DPYQW4TMG'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.283 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Toms Bedhead Blob: execute_cancellable_adaptation_calls with data: AdaptationData(entity_id=light.toms_bedhead_blob, context_id=01HY321MT1:al:KRXW:dpt_:7F, sleep_time=0.0, force=False, max_length=1, which=both, initial_sleep=True)
2024-05-17 20:37:29.283 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script.toms_bedhead_blob] toms_bedhead_blob: Running template script
2024-05-17 20:37:29.284 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script.toms_bedhead_blob] toms_bedhead_blob: Executing step call service
2024-05-17 20:37:29.292 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.script.wled_blob] WLED Blob: Running script sequence
2024-05-17 20:37:29.292 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.script.wled_blob] WLED Blob: Executing step node_red.wled_blob
2024-05-17 20:37:29.312 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script.toms_bedhead_blob] toms_bedhead_blob: Executing step call service
2024-05-17 20:37:29.365 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.wled] Manually updated wled data
2024-05-17 20:37:29.389 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Detected a 'light.toms_bedhead_blob' 'state_changed' event: '{'min_color_temp_kelvin': 2000, 'max_color_temp_kelvin': 6535, 'min_mireds': 153, 'max_mireds': 500, 'supported_color_modes': [<ColorMode.COLOR_TEMP: 'color_temp'>], 'color_mode': <ColorMode.COLOR_TEMP: 'color_temp'>, 'brightness': 171, 'color_temp_kelvin': 2000, 'color_temp': 500, 'hs_color': (30.601, 94.547), 'rgb_color': (255, 136, 13), 'xy_color': (0.599, 0.382), 'friendly_name': 'toms_bedhead_blob', 'supported_features': <LightEntityFeature: 0>}' with context.id='01HY321MWR3VXD8G8BEX0R0GAK'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.390 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Detected an 'off' → 'on' event for 'light.toms_bedhead_blob' with context.id='01HY321MWR3VXD8G8BEX0R0GAK'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.390 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] is_proactively_adapting_context='False', context_id='01HY321MWR3VXD8G8BEX0R0GAK'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.390 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] just_turned_off: delta_time='36.866754' > delay='5'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.390 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] is_proactively_adapting_context='False', context_id='01HY321MWR3VXD8G8BEX0R0GAK'
2024-05-17 20:37:29.390 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Toms Bedhead Blob: Ignoring 'off' → 'on' event for 'light.toms_bedhead_blob' with context.id='01HY321MWR3VXD8G8BEX0R0GAK' because 'light.turn_on' was not called by HA and 'detect_non_ha_changes' is False
2024-05-17 20:37:29.390 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Marking 'light.toms_bedhead_blob' as manually controlled.
2024-05-17 20:37:32.344 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Toms Bedhead Blob: '_update_attrs_and_maybe_adapt_lights' called with context.id='01HY321QSR:al:KRXW:ntrv:7G' lights: 'None', transition: '1.0', force: 'False'
2024-05-17 20:37:32.348 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Toms Bedhead Blob: filtered_lights: '['light.toms_bedhead_blob']'
2024-05-17 20:37:32.349 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] Toms Bedhead Blob: 'light.toms_bedhead_blob' is being manually controlled, stop adapting, context.id=01HY321QSR:al:KRXW:ntrv:7G.
2024-05-17 20:37:34.147 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] asfsdf: '_update_attrs_and_maybe_adapt_lights' called with context.id='01HY321SJ3:al:MFZW:ntrv:0G' lights: 'None', transition: '45', force: 'False'
2024-05-17 20:37:34.155 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.adaptive_lighting.switch] asfsdf: filtered_lights: '[]'
I’d really appreciate any assistance in preventing the manual control from triggering unexpectedly.
EDIT: Tried listening to call_service events, but could only see single turn_on calls on the blob light at an interval matching that configured in adaptive lighting, so everything seems to be okay there.
Also tried configuring adaptive lighting using the light entity from the WLED integration rather than my template entity. It worked as expected without manual mode kicking in for seemingly no reason.
Finaly, tried putting my another light (LIFX) that’s currently working fine on adaptive light behind a template. Even through the template, the manual control works properly.
It would seem that adpative lighting is seeing the custom change in color you are setting as a manual setting thus triggering manual control.
I fail to see why you are even involving adaptive lighting in that custom setup. Is it to control brightness? (Obviously it’s not color).
If you want to use adaptive lighting for the brightness level, why not just reference another entity’s adaptive lighting brightness level to set your brightness?
I may not be seeing the whole picture clearly…
Since you are using Node-RED, I have a circadian subroutine in it whereby I set global brightness, kelvin, rgb values. I still use a varitation of it it for my aquarium lighting, which accomodates for the moon being up or not and adjusts the nightime blue brightness based on moon altitude, but abandoned the standard routine for my other lights since adaptive lighting matured. Perhaps that might be an alternative for you in lieu of adaptive lighting? Or maybe just reference the AL brightness from another entity…
Not sure how you determined “obviously it’s not colour”. My intention is to control both the brightness and colour temperature through Adaptive Lighting, and it indeed works for both on the initial update before manual control kicks in, and continually after toggling the Adaptive Lighting switch to remove manual control.
detect_non_ha_changes defaults to false, the logs explicitly show Adaptive Lighting ignoring non-HA changes, and the same behaviour occurs when specifying detect_non_ha_changes: False in the YAML, so the fact the commands go through Node Red and ultimately the JSON API should not theoretically have an impact. I do quite strongly prefer to use Adaptive Lighting over a NodeRed circadian solution since I rely on the toggles provided by Adaptive Lighting as well as manual control in circumstances where I do genuinely change the light manually and building this out in Node Red is only going to add additional layers of complexity and potential failure.
Ok, I misunderstood your setup and I think I understand it more clearly now.
I’ve not used HA templated lights. Does the templated light have brightness and color_temp/color_temp_kelvin attributes/values when it’s on? I think the values need to match AL’s calculated values, which you can see in the AL master switch entity. If they don’t match and take_over_control is enabled then AL will mark it manually controlled, which I gather you may want in certain circumstances, but I would try disabling it to see if AL can stay in control on the light.
Hello kind experts of AL,
I would so very much appreciate any tips and help with my following problem with the integration as it renders AL almost useless:
All of my lights are stuck after their initial adaptation on turn on.
Here is my config:
lights: - light.bad_deckenlampe - light.bogenlampe - light.flur_deckenlampe - light.gummibaum - light.kamin_links_oben - light.kamin_links_unten - light.kamin_rechts_oben - light.kamin_rechts_unten - light.kammer_licht - light.kleiderschrank - light.rudergerat - light.sofa - light.spiegel - light.treppe_links - light.treppe_rechts interval: 15 transition: 0 initial_transition: 0 min_brightness: 1 max_brightness: 100 min_color_temp: 2202 max_color_temp: 4000 prefer_rgb_color: false sleep_brightness: 1 sleep_rgb_or_color_temp: color_temp sleep_color_temp: 1000 sleep_rgb_color: - 255 - 56 - 0 sleep_transition: 1 transition_until_sleep: false sunrise_time: null min_sunrise_time: null max_sunrise_time: null sunrise_offset: 0 sunset_time: null min_sunset_time: null max_sunset_time: null sunset_offset: 0 brightness_mode: default brightness_mode_time_dark: 900 brightness_mode_time_light: 3600 take_over_control: false detect_non_ha_changes: false autoreset_control_seconds: 60 only_once: false adapt_only_on_bare_turn_on: false separate_turn_on_commands: true send_split_delay: 1 adapt_delay: 1 skip_redundant_commands: false intercept: true multi_light_intercept: true include_config_in_attributes: true name: rest
As you can see in my configuration I have disabled both only_once and adapt_only_on_bare_turn_on. No lights are marked as manual control while this bug occurs. No matter what way I turn on a light, weather it’s by using the turn on service or by using my physical IKEA Tradfri five button switch (the latter is my main method of turning on lights), The light will adapt right away and turn on, but only once. Turning on the lights using turn_on on a device id or on an entity id doesn’t make a difference, lights are still only adapted once and not continuously updated. I have used AL for years since it was still called CL and I hit my ups and downs with different issues but the continues adapting always worked fine. Sometimes I would have to toggle the AL switch often on in order to update lights that got stuck on certain values but then they would work just fine afterwards but now toggling that same switch doesn’t even force my lights, of which none of them are being updated continuously, to be adapted. These days, the only way to force them to adapt is by calling the set_manual_control service which makes me think this bag has something to do with the manual control. But then again as I said, none of the affected lights are marked as manually controlled. Even when I mark them as manually controlled and the set autoreset time puts them back into not being marked as manually controlled The lights still don’t get adapted.
Thank you so much in advance for even reading through this lengthy description and especially for any help!
@badabingbadabong I have occasionally noticed that anomaly on an AL config but it’s never been 100% as you’re seeing. I just checked my office lights which have been on for 74 minutes and their brightness currently matches the AL pct brightness.
It looks like you have 15 lights in one config. I set up mine with separate configs as some are brightness only whereas others are brightness & color but the color ranges differ from one another…
@dbrunt Thanks for your reply! I have plenty more lights so this isn’t my only set up. All of which are from ikea Tradfri and all of them have the same colour range. But I’ll give splitting them up even more a try and report back 
Tried setting up even more instances but that didn’t fix the issue… I know remember what caused this problem: ever since I switched from the original Tradfri gateway, which had a dedicated integration, to the new dirigera hub, which needs to be added to HA via the HomeKit Device integration. 