Adjustable brightness levels and Moodlight defaults

[nagyrobi]

Would be nice to have these configurable from yaml, as more plates can be present in the system and they may require different settings:

• a service to set the idle_brightness and awake_brightness dynamically at HA runtime. To use with automations which could monitor light conditions in the room.
• a default color for moodlight (specific to that room, for example) + service to change it
• an option to switch moodlight on before turning screen off (now possible with automation, but can be triggered only after the screen turns off thus the unit blinks through full-dark for a moment, see below)
• plates's short and long idle times (they are configurable form plate's web interface but would look nice to read them from there and set them from HA)

[nagyrobi]

Currently working (0.4.0-dev) moodlight switcher automations, which would work better if handled by component:

- alias: lanbon-moodlight-idle
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.plate_idle
      from: 'short'
      to: 'long'
  action:
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: hasp/plate/command/page
        payload: 1
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: hasp/plate/command/moodlight
        payload: '{"state":"ON","color":{"r":255,"g":0,"b":255}}'

- alias: lanbon-moodlight-idle-not
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.plate_idle
      from: 'long'
      to: 'off'
  action:
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: hasp/plate/command/moodlight
        payload: '{"state":"OFF","color":{"r":255,"g":0,"b":255}}'

[dgomes]

I will definitely implement moodlight as a HA light entity with all the associated services.

[nagyrobi]

Autodiscovery with 0.4.0-dev already does this for moodlight and backlight.

[nagyrobi]

But! Moodlight colors are forgotten between restarts.

[nagyrobi]

Tested with new component version:

• turn on moodlight from HA entity (the one created by this component)
• select a nice color
• turn the moodlight on and off repeatedly from HA - everything's fine
• reboot or power-cycle plate, wait for LWT to refresh the device
• check moodlight entity: color forgotten.

[dgomes]

please check the latest release

[nagyrobi]

Color still forgotten by the component after power-cycling the plate.