Error with lights after installation

[ve1koz111]

With Control4 Hass integration by Lawtancool, https://github.com/lawtancool/hass-control4 v1.1.19

All other control 4 devices are working perfectly (especially lights), but media players are not working.

With control4RoomMedia installed, nothing else works except media players, and the following error is presented:

Unexpected error fetching light data: Empty response recieved from Director! The variable LIGHT_LEVEL doesn't seem to exist for any items. 17:39:20 – (ERROR) Control4 (custom integration)

[nalin29]

Did it work with the provided HASS version of the control4 integration. If not, this version which will hopefully be merged into main simply builds ontop of the current HASS version and makes no substantive changes to the handling of lights. The control4 integration developed by lawtancool uses websockets but unfortunately no one has datamined the websocket commands to change room controls, only the REST API. Feel free to contribute if you want to try to move the lights and rooms over to websocket.

[ve1koz111]

I will need to try whether the native control4 integration works, by lawtoncool definitely works. Is there a way to run both at the same time? One for media and one for lights since not both work for both for me? Thanks for your response

On Thu, 18 May 2023 at 4:31 am, Nalin Mahajan ***@***.***> wrote: Did it work with the provided HASS version of the control4 integration. If not, this version which will hopefully be merged into main simply builds ontop of the current HASS version and makes no substantive changes to the handling of lights. The control4 integration developed by lawtancool uses websockets but unfortunately no one has datamined the websocket commands to change room controls, only the REST API. Feel free to contribute if you want to try to move the lights and rooms over to websocket. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A3VOCFF2TWUBJJEP3XENABDXGUKRLANCNFSM6AAAAAAYFAUSV4> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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[nalin29]

Not sure, I think if you rename the integration name in the manifest maybe

[nalin29]

I have also rebased to the version i have in the HASS pull request as that has been stalled for 2 months now. Hopefully that may fix your issues.

[ve1koz111]

Still getting the same error. Media working, lights not working. When you say you rebased the version, is that the current HA official c4 integration or the one from lawtoncool? I believe this is the same issue from the official integration (home-assistant/core#73353)

Thanks for your help by the way

Logger: custom_components.control4.light
Source: custom_components/control4/director_utils.py:26
Integration: Control4
First occurred: 16:15:19 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 16:15:19

Unexpected error fetching light data: Empty response recieved from Director! The variable LIGHT_LEVEL doesn't seem to exist for any items.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/update_coordinator.py", line 258, in _async_refresh
self.data = await self._async_update_data()
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/update_coordinator.py", line 217, in _async_update_data
return await self.update_method()
File "/config/custom_components/control4/light.py", line 59, in async_update_data_dimmer
return await update_variables_for_config_entry(
File "/config/custom_components/control4/director_utils.py", line 38, in update_variables_for_config_entry
return await _update_variables_for_config_entry(hass, entry, variable_names)
File "/config/custom_components/control4/director_utils.py", line 26, in _update_variables_for_config_entry
data = await director.getAllItemVariableValue(variable_names)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyControl4/director.py", line 187, in getAllItemVariableValue
raise ValueError(
ValueError: Empty response recieved from Director! The variable LIGHT_LEVEL doesn't seem to exist for any items.

[nalin29]

I did not rebase off of lawtancools custom repo see reasons above. I just brought it up to date with the pending pull request in HASS for the official integration. I think your issue is related to: home-assistant/core#73353

I saw some report of C4 changing the name for light level in the device variables so if you could fire up C4 director and check I might be able to quickly look at a solution if it is that ez. My director is an HC800 so I cannot tests OS 3.3

[ve1koz111]

From Eonnet:

I believe it is now Brightness Percent. in the pre 3.3.0 this variable was LIGHT_LEVEL in control4.

Let me know if this would be an easy fix for yourself or not.

Thanks

[nalin29]

I added a new branch called dev which should try to use the new variable if it is found. Can you test if that works?

[ve1koz111]

The dev is working perfectly for me, that's fixed the problem.
I would say leave two branches, one for people with OS 3.3+, I will test its stability but I imagine there will be no issues.

Thanks for your help.

[nalin29]

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