Hey Blacky,
I’ve been trying to get this Blueprint to work, but the lights aren’t turning off when Plex starts playing. I have the Plex integration and I see in the logbook it shows as playing / paused etc. (screenshot included) I’ve even run the blueprint manually and it’s not doing anything, not sure what I’m missing, the traces show no activity (When I do a run action) I’m also using the bypass since I’m using your Sensor Light Blueprint for this room as well. Here is the code:
Edit: In the homeassistant.log file I’m getting this error: 2024-12-22 15:22:35.720 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.home_theater_watching_movies_light_automation] Error rendering variables: UndefinedError: ‘list object’ has no attribute ‘entity_id’
Thanks for the blueprints!!! Great additions!
Ive been doing some UV automation for lights and your Sensor Light is perfect. If I see a good place to add in UV or Lux into it ill let you know!
Movie lights are required but because you would like them OFF I set the % to 0. Not sure what the automation link is doing so you will have to make sure that is correct. See code below… copy paste it in replace you YAML
@Blacky As always thank you so much for the help, it’s working now, can’t believe I missed that, I knew I was missing something. One last question, and sorry if someone asked this before but I couldn’t find anything. On the “Lights on at End”, when I stop playback, it turns off the automation and reverts back to your other blueprint Sensor Light, which turns the lights back on to 100%, I thought in the lights on at end if I set the Brightness to 50% with 5 seconds transitions it would use that brightness/transition, is there a way when the movie ends (or hit stop) that the lights transition on slowly instead of BAM lights 100%
Lights, Camera, Action! Get ready to grab the popcorn because it’s movie time with a touch of cinematic magic!
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Automation Link - Time Delay: When you stop the media player, you can use the Lights ON at End option to set the lights to a comfortable brightness… say, 50%. After the Time Delay has passed, the automation link turns OFF, handing control back to your primary light automation (Sensor Light Blueprint), which might restore the lights to full brightness (e.g., 100%). This gradual transition gives your eyes time to adjust, creating a smoother shift from movie mode back to your regular lighting and enhancing the overall user experience.
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Hi Blacky,
For some reason the Automation link - Time Delay is still not working for me. When I stop the player the lights go back on and the Sensor Automation kicks in immediately. Let me know if I need to provide any other trace / log.
Triggered by the state of media_player.plex_plex_for_android_tv_shield_android_tv_2 at December 29, 2024 at 10:27:07 AM
Test If any of 8 conditions matches
Test If any of 5 conditions matches
Test If any of 7 conditions matches
Test If any of 4 conditions matches
Test If any of 10 conditions matches
Choose: No action executed
Choose: No action executed
Choose: Check turn off lights & switches is enabled and turn off lights that are on
Choose: Check trigger intermission is enabled and turn intermission lights off
Choose: Check if automation link is enable
(input_boolean.automation_link_media_movie) turned on
Choose: No action executed
Perform action 'Light: Turn on' on templated entities
Choose: If transition is not selected
Turn on the switches
Turn on the scripts
Choose: No action executed
Wait until trigger is off
1 minute later
Wait the number of seconds set in the time delay
3 seconds later
Choose: If transition is not selected
Turn off the switches
Turn on the scripts
Choose: Check if end turn ON is enable & option Enable to turn ON - Lights - Switches - Scenes
Choose: No action executed
Choose: Check if automation link is enable
(input_boolean.automation_link_media_movie) turned off
(light.home_theater_main_lights) turned on
Finished at December 29, 2024 at 10:28:16 AM (runtime: 68.81 seconds)
"Would it be possible to add the ability to activate Intermission with a different entity than the trigger?
Reason: I use a toggle helper to start trigger this automation, but want to use Plex paused to trigger Intermission.
As I am integrating this scene with the Light Sensor scene for the same room, the lights that this scene controls are already on, and this scene needs to turn them off for movie watching. I couldn’t save this scene without entering an entity into ‘Lights - Switches - Scenes *’. I don’t want any additional lights to turn on, only the ones that Sensor Light scene has already turned on to turn off."
Was there a solution for this?. Ideally for me there would be a “start” step before the 'media playing" step and a 'stop" step after the “media stopped” step that sets the scene before playing the media and optionally restore entities when stopped
You can use another entity to trigger it ON but if your use plex to pause then you will need the state change from plex back to playing to resume it… so then why not just use plex… test it and see if it works.
because i want to prepare the room before the media starts playing ( close shutters lower the projector screen, turn on projector etc). I guess i need to have 2 automations or roll my own in this case. I just need to learn how to remember entities states before activation so at the end of movie watching they return to their previous states
I found out there’s a HACS add-on for stateful scenes, but it seems it is applied to all scenes when installed. but i only want/need to remember states for this one scene. can anyone recommend the best solution for my situation or has similar setup?
So you can use an entity to start it and then use the plex to take over. Try using an entity with the ON state. Then in the Trigger - OFF State don’t put a OFF state and only use what state your plex go into.
Or just use your plex get the movie ready and hit pause. Then you will have intermission lights and be all ready to walk in.
Use the Enable to create a snapshot - Lights - Switches in Lights ON at End. It will record all your light for you and then return them to your previous states / settings.
Thank you for great Blueprint (and others as well).
I have a strange issue. I’m trying to use a snapshot to restore previous state of the light in the room. The room light is a dimmer, so it restores the brightness. I have a dashboard with Light card widgets where I can see/control brightness and on/off the light.
The problem I have is - when I press the pause button on the remote, playback pauses, and the widget shows, that the brightness of the light sets to the previous value, but the actual light remains at the brightness supposed to be at movie playback.
If I choose not to use a snapshot, but set a brightness to certain level, it works great. So it seems the snapshot mechanism does not affect actual hardware somehow.
Do you have any suggestions of where to look at and/or how to debug this?
Could you please provide us your YAML of the automation? This YAML code are the settings you have selected in the automation so I can help. To do this go into your automation, top right 3 dots, Edit in YAML, copy all the code, come back to the forum and in your reply at the top tool bar click on “</>” and paste code in there.
I now have a working movie Mode switch and automation that activates a scene when turned on and restores entities in that scene when turned off.
Now I am finding this blueprint doesn’t seem to work i assume because on start/playing i don’t want any entities to turn on, only lights to turn off
I just also noticed, that before changing the brightness to the previous one (from the snapshoot), dimmer changes state to off, and then on. I.e. if it was on with brightness 50, when I start playback it changes to 8 (from the config), then, when I stop playback, in 3 seconds the dimmer switches off, then immediately on with brightness 50.
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