modern eagle
I'm trying to make a node-red automation that will, when a movie is played on a device check the settings of the two lamps that I have in the livingroom and store that information, and then set the lamps to a specific colour and brightness. If the movie is paused lift the brightness of the those lamps, and if the movie is stopped put the lights back in what ever state they were in. I've got this far, but i'm not sure if i'm on the right path.
Thanks.
west mica
This is independent of Node-RED, but I'd recommend using dynamic scenes for saving the state and restoring it instead of manually doing it. That'll greatly simplify how you handle this.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/scene/#creating-scenes-on-the-fly
Right now, your only trigger is not idle, though, too
So, it's only going to evaluate any of this when the media_player goes from idle->something else
I think your playing/paused/stopped switch is on the wrong property too, currently set to msg.data.new_state.attributes.media_content_type
But it sounds like whatever property that should be, should actually be the triggering attribute
That way this triggers anytime that attribute changes
modern eagle
i'm not too worried about teh switch logic i can figure that out, its the store and restore state that i'm having issues with. The nodes beloe produce this error:
"HomeAssistantError: extra keys not allowed @ data['0']"
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This is the save node.
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west mica
This is independent of Node-RED, but I'd recommend using dynamic scenes for savi...
I'll refer you back to this regarding saving/restoring state
modern eagle
well that was much easier than expect. Thank you so much. Scene create, and scene_turn did the job!
Thanks!
modern eagle
one thing i've just realised is that if i pause and then play it will save the ew state of the lights, is there of using setting up a current state node that if the last msg.payload was paused it stops the message?