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Breina / ha-artnet-led

DMX lighting Integration for Home Assistant. Using the HA Color Mode update and Pyartnet library to control lights in multiple DMX universes over ethernet with the Art-Net protocol.
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Help with basic integration with a smoke machine #7

Open BlueWRXPride opened 2 years ago

BlueWRXPride commented 2 years ago

I would like to use this module to interface Home Assistant with a DMX smoke machine. My plan is to use ESPHome PIR motion sensors to trigger the smoke machine for X seconds. I also would like to have a switch on the Home Assistant dashboard to manually trigger the machine on and off. One of the smoke machines I have also has LED lighting, so a bonus would be to be able to control that lighting too, but that's less important for me.

Breina commented 2 years ago

Interesting use case.

For now it should be possible to treat the DMX channel the same as a 'binary' light. The only difference is that it would be a switch entity instead of a light entity.

Grouping lights and arbitrary switches and sliders in a single device is something that I have planned, anyway.

Breina commented 2 years ago

Related solutioning

For controlling arbitrary devices: https://github.com/jnimmo/hass-dmx/issues/54

For grouping entities into devices: https://github.com/jnimmo/hass-dmx/issues/62