Aqara Advanced Lighting v1.2.0

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Upgrade Instructions

Upgrading from v1.1.0:

1. Update via HACS to v1.2.0
2. Restart Home Assistant
3. Clear browser cache (Ctrl+Shift+R or Cmd+Shift+R), clear HA app cache

Your existing configuration, presets, and favorites are automatically preserved.

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Breaking Changes

• Minimum Home Assistant version raised to 2026.3.0 — Users on HA 2025.12.x–2026.2.x must upgrade Home Assistant before updating this integration. Removes legacy backwards compatibility for pre-WebAwesome components, and adds Python 3.1.4 optimizations.

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What's New

Version 1.2.0 introduces audio-reactive lighting for dynamic scenes, a Lovelace preset favorites card, the ability to hide build-in presets, and a major codebase refactor for maintainability. It also adds CCT slider support in the color picker, allows CCT-only lights in dynamic scenes, and selected Favorite lights now presist across reloads and devices.

Audio-Reactive Lighting

Dynamic scene changes can now be synced to music through an ESPHome audio sensor

This new feature works in tandem with an ESPHome device flashed with custom firmware that analyses environmental sound and outputs a variety of sensors such as beat detection and amplitude to Home Assistant, which this new feature then translates into music reactive dynamic scenes. It can work with any pre-existing dynamic scene preset by overriding the transition and hold time settings.

Initial firmware builds for 4 cheap off-the-shelf ESP32 devices are included, the M5Stack Atom Echo ($13/£13), M5Stack Atom Echo S3R ($15/£15), Waveshare ESP32-S3 Audio Board ($18/£18), and M5StickC Plus2 ($20/£20). These can be flashed with the custom firmware using a simple web installer, no specialist ESP32 knowledge is needed. The firmware can also be adapted to any ESP32 device with a microphone.

For more detailed information on how this feature works please see the dedicated documentation page.

• Audio-reactive lighting mode with ESP32-based on-device audio analysis
• New ESPHome sensor integration
• Responsive audio overrides
• On-device audio mode opt-in for T1 Strip non-Aqara devices with built-in music sync functions
• 12 new audio-reative presets

Preset Favorites Lovelace Card

A new dashboard card for quick access to your favorite presets

• Aqara Preset Favorites card for Lovelace dashboards
• Active preset highlighting with toggle behavior

Hide and restore built-in presets

• Hide/restore built-in presets you don't use

Dynamic Scenes & Color Picker

• CCT-only lights now supported in dynamic scenes via XY-to-CCT conversion
• CCT slider added to the color picker panel

Improvements

• Favorite light and entity selection added to user persistent storage
• Replace externally paused text with color-coded entity chips
• More ZHA attributes exposed for native HA controls
• Pause solar/schedule sequences on new preset activation instead of stopping
• Unify auto-generated icons to circular style

Fixes

• Eliminate forced reflow during drag in transition curve graph
• RGB input fields snap back
• Off-state restoration for stopping presets on lights with segments
• Align solar/schedule CCT timeline labels with bar markers
• Solar/schedule sequence restarts for lights in on-state during HA reboot

Full Changelog

View full changelog

Support

• Report Issues
• Documentation
• Contributing Guidelines

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