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ericmatte / ad-media-lights-sync

💡 AppDaemon App that synchronize RGB lights with the thumbnail of a media player in Home Assistant. Be sure to ⭐️ my repo!
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Continuously change color when watching a movie or series #62

Closed e-ru closed 3 months ago

e-ru commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Description of what the problem is.

There is no problem

Describe the solution you'd like

Description of what you want to happen.

I would like to have the light change every x seconds when watching a movie or series. Could this be achieved by reading the image of the media player periodically via a loop and update the light accordingly?

Describe alternatives you've considered

Description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered.

Update the condition of the app in a way that you can define the period of the colour change in an additional condition.

Additional context

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It's kind of an ambilight...

e-ru commented 1 year ago

ok, i did the loop, but the entity_picture doesn't change. is there a way to get the data of the current picture?

ericmatte commented 3 months ago

Hi, sorry for the late response, but this is somewhat possible if you are using an android tv, with remote debugging enabled.

Something like that: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/getting-the-image-art-from-media-player-androidtv-as-a-generic-camera/189595/7.

The only problem is that the image seems to be updating at 2-3 seconds intervals, and this script can take up to 1 seconds to process the image. Sadly, this is too much delay to be worth it, and it is outside of the scope of this project.

I would suggest to try something like the HDMI Hue Sync Box by Philips Hue or the Govee TV Backlight, which are a better option for real-time colors sync.