So, I bought a IKEA Styrbar remote and wanted to use it to control the brightness of multiple lights with the ability to extend it to more lights (relatively) easily. As I did not find any solution for that, here is the blueprint:
blueprint:
name: IKEA STYRBAR - multi light control
description: Control multiple lights with IKEA Styrbar Remote over Zigebee2MQTT
domain: automation
input:
remote:
name: Styrbar-Remote Action Entity
selector:
entity:
filter:
- domain: sensor
integration: mqtt
light_id_entity:
name: Input Number for selected light index
selector:
entity:
multiple: false
filter:
- domain: input_number
light_number_entity:
name: Input Number for amount of lights you want to control
selector:
entity:
multiple: false
filter:
- domain: input_number
light_id:
name: Index of this light in the list of lights you want to control
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 100
mode: box
light:
name: Styrbar-Remote Action Entity
selector:
entity:
multiple: false
filter:
- domain: light
arrow_left_hold_action:
name: Arrow left hold action
selector:
action:
default: []
arrow_left_release_action:
name: Arrow left release action
selector:
action:
default: []
arrow_right_hold_action:
name: Arrow right hold action
selector:
action:
default: []
arrow_right_release_action:
name: Arrow right release action
selector:
action:
default: []
increase_delay:
name: Delay after increasing the light index (ms)
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 1000
default: 100
force_brightness:
name: If you want to set the brightness to Brightness (%) percent for every 'on' command
selector:
boolean:
default: false
brightness_pct:
name: Brightness (%) if force brightness is active
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 100
default: 50
millis_delay:
name: Brightness increment delay (ms)
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 1000
default: 150
repeat_count:
name: Iteration Count for Brightness increment
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 100
default: 20
brightness_step:
name: Step of brightness for each iteration (%)
selector:
number:
min: 0
max: 100
default: 20
variables:
light: !input light
force_brightness: !input force_brightness
bri_pct: !input brightness_pct
light_id: !input light_id
light_id_entity: !input light_id_entity
light_number_entity: !input light_number_entity
brightness_step: !input brightness_step
repeat_count: !input repeat_count
millis_delay: !input millis_delay
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: "on"
id: "on"
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: "off"
id: "off"
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: brightness_move_up
id: brightness_move_up
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: brightness_move_down
id: brightness_move_down
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: brightness_stop
id: brightness_stop
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: arrow_left_click
id: arrow_left_click
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: arrow_left_hold
id: arrow_left_hold
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: arrow_left_release
id: arrow_left_release
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: arrow_right_click
id: arrow_right_click
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: arrow_right_hold
id: arrow_right_hold
- platform: state
entity_id: !input remote
to: arrow_right_release
id: arrow_right_release
condition:
- alias: "Light ID matching"
condition: template
value_template: "{{ states(light_id_entity) | int == light_id }}"
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- "on"
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ force_brightness }}"
sequence:
- service: light.turn_on
target:
entity_id: "{{ light }}"
data:
brightness_pct: "{{ bri_pct }}"
alias: "on_force"
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- "on"
sequence:
- service: light.turn_on
target:
entity_id: "{{ light }}"
alias: "on"
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- "off"
sequence:
- service: light.turn_off
target:
entity_id: "{{ light }}"
alias: "off"
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- brightness_move_up
sequence:
- repeat:
count: "{{ repeat_count }}"
sequence:
- service: light.turn_on
metadata: {}
data:
brightness_step_pct: "{{ brightness_step }}"
target:
entity_id: "{{ light }}"
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
milliseconds: "{{ millis_delay }}"
alias: brightness_move_up
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- brightness_move_down
sequence:
- repeat:
count: "{{ repeat_count }}"
sequence:
- service: light.turn_on
metadata: {}
data:
brightness_step_pct: "{{ -brightness_step }}"
target:
entity_id: "{{ light }}"
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
milliseconds: "{{ millis_delay }}"
alias: brightness_move_down
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- brightness_stop
sequence: []
alias: brightness_stop
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- arrow_left_click
sequence:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ states(light_id_entity) | int <= 0 }}"
sequence:
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
milliseconds: !input increase_delay
- service: input_number.set_value
data_template:
entity_id: !input light_id_entity
value: "{{ states(light_number_entity) | int - 1 }}"
default:
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
milliseconds: !input increase_delay
- service: input_number.decrement
entity_id: !input light_id_entity
alias: arrow_left_click
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- arrow_left_hold
sequence: []
alias: arrow_left_hold
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- arrow_left_release
sequence: []
alias: arrow_left_release
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- arrow_right_click
sequence:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ states(light_id_entity) | int >= states(light_number_entity) | int - 1 }}"
sequence:
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
milliseconds: !input increase_delay
- service: input_number.set_value
entity_id: !input light_id_entity
data:
value: 0
default:
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
milliseconds: !input increase_delay
- service: input_number.increment
entity_id: !input light_id_entity
alias: arrow_right_click
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- arrow_right_hold
sequence: []
alias: arrow_right_hold
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- arrow_right_release
sequence: []
alias: arrow_right_release
mode: restart
To use the blueprint, you need to add two input number helpers:
- An index for the currently selected light
- A number for the amount of lights that you want to control with this blueprint (you need to increment this one manually each time you add another light)
The configuration is relatively simple, you just add the action sensor of your Styrbar remote, the light you want to control, the two input number helpers configured above, and specify the index of the light (starting with 0).
You need to add an automation for each light you want to include and increase the index by 1 each time.
If you want your light to always start with the same brightness, you can specify it in the blueprint and set the boolean to true, so that the light brightness is forced each time. Otherwise the light will turn on with its last brightness value.
The other configuration options are mostly for possible problems that could arise. If you discover that two automations trigger simultaniously, increase the delay after increasing the light index, for me 100ms works great, which is why that is the default.
I don’t use the hold actions, but I included them in the inputs if you want to use those.
The mode of the blueprint is restart, as that is how the brightness control works here. The long press on brightness up or down triggers a loop (default 20 iterations) that increases the brightess by the specified percentage (default 5) and waits for some amount of time (default 150ms) in each iteration. When the brightness stop command comes, it restarts the automation and therefore intercepts the loop with the light being at the correct brightness.
As you may have noticed, this is a rather substential automation and not that easy to set up, but I wanted to share it anyway. Maybe it helps someone who wanted to achieve the same as me.
