Hi, I’m currently migrating from OpenHAB to HA. I’ve an Installation in my house with KNX/Dali but also a lot of Smart Decoration LED strips powered by ESPHome/WLED/Espurna. So all the Dali PSUs are grouped via KNX to an actor channel and powered down by the Dali Gateway automatically directly via KNX when not in use. That’s still fine.
But I implemented the same for all the smart lights also. They are grouped like 1st floor, ground floor together. I have some rules in my OpenHAB that as soon as a smart light is powered on, then all the devices get power on that floor first. (I can bear the fact that the first light then needs some seconds to “boot”)
Anyway with HA I now have the issue that all the Lights are now shown as unavailable in HA. So i cannot turn them on. As I cannot turn them on, there is no possibility to turn on the common power for them…
How can i make the devices to appear as “available” while they are powered down.
You can’t turn on an unavailable device, but you can turn on a knx switch entity Linked to the actuator controlling their power.
Then just wait for them to become available.
Ok, I understand that this is currently not implemented.
But this is totally against “home automation”
With OpenHAB i had as solution, to just resend the state of the lamp right after the device comes online. Second thing, if all devices in that group where off - then after some grace period the power was cut off. This worked pretty well.
First Click On, then wait, then switch on lamp in different place - doesn’t sound modern. I’m quite sure the “WAF” (Woman Acceptance Factor) will go negative if i present this new procedure, instead of “lamp on”.
So I’ll need to find a workaround - maybe something like selfmade “Scenes” on top, that automatize this.
Or is there some possibility to generate some “virtual” light (with colorpicker) that is always available which copies all its data to the “real” light in case it is online.