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Kaleidescape & Home Assistant

Hi there - I just used the Grid Card to create the UI and then built it out button by button. I've got the Yaml listed here as well: Theater Remote YAML
Appreciate it. I will look at yaml. You mentioned to get out of stand by mode. Sending command like up/down should make it come out right. Control manual has has 'LEAVE_STANDBY' command. But I could not find in the integration code.

I was trying to understand kscape integration code and I also have little experience using python few years back. I could not find mappings like any references to use GET_MOVIE_LOCATION which should be generated and sent to kscape for media location to credits type trigger.
 
This is what my lights control ended up looking like:

alias: Kaleidescape lights on
description: Turn lights on at credits
triggers:
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- sensor.kaleidescape_strato_v_0701_00001203_media_location
from: content
conditions: []
actions:
- action: scene.turn_on
target:
entity_id: scene.theater_room_theater_full
data: {}
mode: single

alias: Kaleidescape theater lights down
description: Turn lights down when movie starts
triggers:
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- sensor.kaleidescape_strato_v_0701_00001203_media_location
to: content
conditions: []
actions:
- action: scene.turn_on
data: {}
target:
entity_id: scene.theater_room_theater_dimmed
mode: single
 
I hope all these recent posts with code samples, etc. isn’t dissuading users from trying out Home Assistant to do some very easy things with Kaleidescape and lighting systems. Coding, even pasting in code given here is NOT required… see the simple examples I gave at the start of this thread. Yes, more technical people can get it dialed in a certain specific way and make their new HA panel look all fancy with more work, but it’s truly not necessary to get really good lighting integration.

(Not that I’m trying to de-emphasize these interesting more technical posts here… i love this stuff!)
 
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I hope all these recent posts with code samples, etc. isn’t dissuading users from trying out Home Assistant to do some very easy things with Kaleidescape and lighting systems. Coding, even pasting in code given here is NOT required… see the simple examples I gave at the start of this thread. Yes, more technical people can get it dialed in a certain specific way and make their new HA panel look all fancy with more work, but it’s truly not necessary to get really good lighting integration.

(Not that I’m trying to de-emphasize these interesting more technical posts here… i love this stuff!)
Great post. I have mine dialed in pretty extensively and didn’t require any code except to show the duration setting for transitions. I only open my Home Assistant dashboard to power up the theater from outside of the room. Other than that I use my universal remote of choice for everything else and just let HA do its thing.
 
I hope all these recent posts with code samples, etc. isn’t dissuading users from trying out Home Assistant to do some very easy things with Kaleidescape and lighting systems. Coding, even pasting in code given here is NOT required… see the simple examples I gave at the start of this thread. Yes, more technical people can get it dialed in a certain specific way and make their new HA panel look all fancy with more work, but it’s truly not necessary to get really good lighting integration.

(Not that I’m trying to de-emphasize these interesting more technical posts here… i love this stuff!)
This thread actually made me buy a HA Green as I’ve got Philips Hue bulbs everywhere setup on my Harmony remote and it allows me to integrate a few other things that would be good to automate.

I had been considering a Control 4 and Lutron lighting for a future upgrade but this seems to solve the integration problems between devices to allow for a much simpler DIY control system without the serious expense and ongoing costs.
 
I hope all these recent posts with code samples, etc. isn’t dissuading users from trying out Home Assistant to do some very easy things with Kaleidescape and lighting systems. Coding, even pasting in code given here is NOT required… see the simple examples I gave at the start of this thread. Yes, more technical people can get it dialed in a certain specific way and make their new HA panel look all fancy with more work, but it’s truly not necessary to get really good lighting integration.

(Not that I’m trying to de-emphasize these interesting more technical posts here… i love this stuff!)
Totally agreed Josh - the code that was shared is definitely for folks that want to dig in a bit more deeply. Just to show what the GUI looks like to create a simple remote, check out the screen shots below. You literally just tell the Grid Card how many columns you want, start adding buttons, and assign each one an action:

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Home Assistant really makes everything simple - even all the icons that I used for the buttons were just a simple search inside the input box called "Icon".

I think that is the great thing about HA - it is super simple to just get started, but also gives you really, really fine grain control over stuff if you want it. Plus, there is a huge community of helpers online. I've found Google to be my best friend when trying to figure stuff out.
 
I made the mistake a while back of trying to "learn" HA by reading support forums and watching youtube videos...I was very much overwhelmed.

Wasn't until I just broke down and installed it on my NAS and starting playing around that I realized how simple it can be to do pretty much everything I needed. Have yet to need to edit a yaml file or do any other "coding". Granted I only do automations....I have no desire to use a phone or tablet as a remote. A remote without physical buttons is not a remote to me :)
 
This thread actually made me buy a HA Green as I’ve got Philips Hue bulbs everywhere setup on my Harmony remote and it allows me to integrate a few other things that would be good to automate.

I had been considering a Control 4 and Lutron lighting for a future upgrade but this seems to solve the integration problems between devices to allow for a much simpler DIY control system without the serious expense and ongoing costs.
I agree. This thread helped me to buy green. I never heard about home assistant before. With single click on HA, able to make my theater ready. Not only operating multiple remotes, but also manual process some times show projector as disconnected until I keep restarting one or two devices. I am still waiting to get unfolded circle remote which might help to use combination of HA and remote.

I respect not to post code or any links to code. I was struggling to understand flow and commands sent to exploit any commands that are not documented and was excited to find dependency module and posted link.
 
Ok so finally got the green delivered after it got sent to the wrong delivery hub and 24hr deliver turned into 5days!

Anyway that aside I’ve started to add some devices and now at a point where some aren’t in the included integrations but googling shows it is available in home assistant. So my question is how if indeed is there a way to add more integrations from elsewhere or does the software on it not allow for that?

If you can, how do you do it as I looked through all the menus and couldn’t see an obvious way and goggling wasn’t coming up with what I wanted?
 
Ok so finally got the green delivered after it got sent to the wrong delivery hub and 24hr deliver turned into 5days!

Anyway that aside I’ve started to add some devices and now at a point where some aren’t in the included integrations but googling shows it is available in home assistant. So my question is how if indeed is there a way to add more integrations from elsewhere or does the software on it not allow for that?

If you can, how do you do it as I looked through all the menus and couldn’t see an obvious way and goggling wasn’t coming up with what I wanted?
If you are looking for custom elements (like integrations), you need to go and add HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) : HACS

My guess is this is where the custom integrations are located that you are looking for. It handles those very nicely.
 
If you are looking for custom elements (like integrations), you need to go and add HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) : HACS

My guess is this is where the custom integrations are located that you are looking for. It handles those very nicely.
How do you do that from the home assistant app? Or is there another way to go deeper into settings on the green that I’ll need to use?

Basically I want to add the Lyngdorf MP60 and can see someone has already made one but not sure what I need to do to add it. Same with Ring, I want to add my motion sensor so that it will turn on the lobby lights when I’m in the lobby and then turn off after x amount of time with no motion detected. The standard Ring integration only sees the cameras which I’m less interested in.
 
How do you do that from the home assistant app? Or is there another way to go deeper into settings on the green that I’ll need to use?

Basically I want to add the Lyngdorf MP60 and can see someone has already made one but not sure what I need to do to add it. Same with Ring, I want to add my motion sensor so that it will turn on the lobby lights when I’m in the lobby and then turn off after x amount of time with no motion detected. The standard Ring integration only sees the cameras which I’m less interested in.
 
Ok that was simple enough once I was back home and could just go to the link. All installed and now I’ve got my motion sensors set up, last thing is the Lyngdorf, with that python script what can I do with that if anything because it’s not an actual ready to go integration as far as I can tell?
 
Not sure about that... once you get to Python scrtips, I'm out, personally. If it were me, I'd be on the Lyngdorf forums and asking if anyone is able to work on an HA integration. Often a technical owner of these types of devices will setp up, as happened with Kaleidescape.
 
Ha, that was about my reaction too. Working out how to operate the Home Assistant OS is one thing but making the code do what I want, nope. I could learn but I don’t have the time unfortunately.

There’s one already for Trinnov but I think those owners love to tweak whereas Lyngdorf owners I would suggest are the set and forget kind given Room Perfect is their USP and given the cost lot something that can easily be tested by someone who doesn’t already have own it.

Maybe I’ll ask a family member who works in software coding.
 
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