Feature request: Adaptive Lighting should be inactive when the light is activated via brightness

[j3mu5]

Hello dear community,

I am observing an undesirable behaviour. If I set a switched-off light in Homeassistant directly to a certain brightness in the context menu of the frontend, this is overwritten by Adaptive Lighting.

I would therefore like to see the following behaviour, if possible:

• Adaptive Lighting should become active when the light is switched on.
• Adaptive Lighting should not be activated when a certain brightness is set, which switches the light on.

[th3w1zard1]

See the V2 Roadmap for the main thread. This has been requested many many times already.
The short is there isn't a good way to do this as the whole integration relies on the second light.turn_on being the main trigger for manual detection. Also some lights pass brightness/color data to the ha event bus and I haven't figured out a way to distinguish these either. You can see #528 for a rough implementation of the feature, feel free to test it out and see if it works the way you'd like.

tldr, if you want to turn a light manually from off->on with AL, either call light.turn_on twice: once to turn the light on and second to set the target brightness/color, or call adaptive_lighting.set_manual_mode in your script. HA makes it very easy to do both of these and should also work with scenes. If you want to do this in the frontend with the brightness slider, just turn it on first then set the brightness.

[efenner]

I have this same issue.

@th3w1zard1, you mention that this should work with scenes. Do you have any advice on that? When I apply a scene, even if I turn off the main adapt brightness toggle in the scene, the lights that are turned on by the scene that were previously off get adapted, breaking the scene.

[basnijholt]

I am implementing an option adapt_only_on_bare_turn_on which instantly triggers manual_control when turning on with brightness or color in PR #709.

Enabling this will make sure AL doesn't take over when setting a scene.

[basnijholt]

This is now in the latest beta release. Looking forward to your feedback.

[j3mu5]

This is now in the latest beta release. Looking forward to your feedback.

@basnijholt
I just tested it - it works very well for me and exactly as desired: when setting the brightness or colour temperature directly, AL takes no action.
When switching on, AL sets brightness and colour temperature as desired.
Many thanks!

[basnijholt]

Thanks a lot for getting back to me! Glad you like it 😄