Syncing LED Lights to Playing Music

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@papastam you will need to install in your Home Assistant the AppDaemon 4 add-on from the Supervisor tab, and HACS.

  • AppDaemon is what we use to run the python app.
  • HACS is the Home Assistant Community Store, which allow you to easily install third-party apps/integrations

Here is the doc for both of them:

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Hi there.
Thanks for that amazing piece of code.
I can confirm that it works with SONOS One while streaming Spotify and a VU+ DVB-S2/T2 receiver, too. The VU+ box is integrated into HA and HA grabs a frame every 10 seconds, which then your app uses to generate the colour palette.

Great work! Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Your HACS addon works great! Quick suggestion… …for those of us with LIFX Led strips, I know that each LIFX strip have 8 zones that can be configured, anyway that the plugin can support that so that colors are smoother?

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Is this possible with a camera entity as a source?

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is WLED supported? Cause it is not working properly i think. Appdaemon is picking it up. But no change in light

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Is it possible to set up a push to sync button or a service to call that would sync the lights based on the current media art? For example, when playing a game on the PlayStation I have my lights sync to certain colours based on game title however insteading of creating scenes for every title I could have an automation that says if Playstation status changes to playing, sync lights to colors based on current media

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Hi mate2002, is there a way to syn the lights to the rythm of the music? I mean is there a way home assistant could see, and sync on the fly the lights while the music is playing

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Is this still live? Couldnt find the app in HACS. Very sad if this no longer works

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Hi @matigonzzalezzz
Did you able to get this setup working, I am also interested to use my LIFX bulb to change colors based on the music rhythm

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it works, just tested. you need to enable appdaemon in hacs first to install it

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I’ve installed the appdaemon and it has started and according to the log it’s listening for a picture change however none is detected. I’m casting YouTube Music from my phone to my chromecast connected to my TV. Here’s my yaml:

media_lights_sync:
  module:
    media_lights_sync
  class:
    MediaLightsSync
  media_player:
    media_player.tv
  lights:
    - light.0xa4c13898f81727a0
    - light.0xa4c13852d0de1129
  ha_url: redacted
  reset_lights_after: true
  use_saturated_colors: false
  use_current_brightness: false
  photo_attribute: entity_picture
  condition:
    entity: input_boolean.sync_tv_lights
    state: "on"

Here’s the log:

2024-01-07 01:13:15.760091 INFO AppDaemon: Calling initialize() for media_lights_sync
2024-01-07 01:13:15.761483 INFO media_lights_sync: Using default quantization method
2024-01-07 01:13:15.762584 INFO media_lights_sync: Listening for picture changes on 'media_player.tv'

Any suggestion?

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I've removed the "condition" and used Amazon Music instead of YouTube Music and I'm getting callbacks. Looking at the available attributes of media_player.tv while streaming from YouTube Music, I don't see any album attribute. I tried streaming from my Emby Media player and it doesn't provide a picture attribute either. I think these two music players stream a video instead of displaying a picture.

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Where to install it? I’ve installed AppDaemon 4 under Add Ons. I see no way to install it on the AppDaemon page… Searching it through Integrations on HACS finds nothing.

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you have to create /apps/apps.yaml file under /config/appdeamon on your HA

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Is this still working after updating to HACS 2.0?

:boom: Breaking changes

  • NetDaemon apps are no longer in HACS.