Media Sensor for Home Automation

This app monitors the status of the sound output on your PC. It reports updates to the Home Assistant server.

The purpose of this app is to automatically turn off the light when the media is playing, and turn the light on when the media is stopped.

Features

• Turn on the light when media pauses
  • Turn the light on when sound stops playing
  • Turn the light off when sound starts playing
• Use as a light switch
  • Override the sound sensor and manually control the light
  • Option to not use the sound sensor at all
• Mouse free operation
  • Space, Enter and Escape shortcuts to operate and/or minimize the app.
• Don't worry about turning the PC off
  • The light turns off a minute after the app closes

Prerequisites

• Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/
• Windows 10
• .NET Core 3.1 runtime: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1

Sample code

mediasensor.yaml in the same directory as the .exe

url: http://hass-server:8123/api/states/sensor.tvroommedia # URL of the API endpoint. See https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/external_api_rest.html
token: redacted # Home Assistant long term token
poll: 250 # Polling delay in milliseconds. This represents delay between calls to the OS.
latch: 1000 # Latching delay in milliseconds. This represents duration of how long media state must be steady before making API call 
soundsensor: true # true to enable the sound sensor. false to use the app as just an on-off switch

automations.yaml on the Home Assistant server

- alias: mediasensor tv room lights on via media
  description: Lights turn on at night when media is stopped
  trigger:
  - entity_id: sensor.tvroommedia
    platform: state
    to: on media
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    state: 'below_horizon'
  action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    data:
      entity_id: switch.tv_room

- alias: mediasensor tv room lights off via media
  description: Lights turn off at night when media plays
  trigger:
  - entity_id: sensor.tvroommedia
    platform: state
    to: off media
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    state: 'below_horizon'
  action:
  - service: switch.turn_off
    data:
      entity_id: switch.tv_room

- alias: mediasensor tv room lights on via switch
  description: Light turns on when switch is set
  trigger:
  - entity_id: sensor.tvroommedia
    platform: state
    to: on switch
  action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    data:
      entity_id: switch.tv_room

- alias: mediasensor tv room lights off via switch
  description: Light turns off when switch is reset
  trigger:
  - entity_id: sensor.tvroommedia
    platform: state
    to: off switch
  action:
  - service: switch.turn_off
    data:
      entity_id: switch.tv_room

- alias: mediasensor tv room lights off after delay
  description: Light turns off two minutes after app shuts down
  trigger:
  - entity_id: sensor.tvroommedia
    platform: state
    to: shutdown
  action:
  - delay: 0:02
  - service: switch.turn_off
    data:
      entity_id: switch.tv_room