Media Player Lights Sync

AppDaemon App that synchronizes the color of RGB lights with the thumbnail of a media player in Home Assistant.

Features

• Realtime RGB lights color synchronization with the thumbnail of a media player
• Extract most relevant colors from a picture and assign them to lights
• Always creates great matching moody ambiances
• Change all configured lights color at the same time using multithreading
• Prevent lights synchronization based on a state condition from your Home Assistant

Installation

Use HACS or download the media_lights_sync directory from inside the apps directory here to your local apps directory, then add the configuration to enable the media_lights_sync module.

Prerequisites

In order for this app to work, you need to add py3-pillow and Pillow to the config of your AppDaemon 4 Supervisor add-on:

system_packages:
  - py3-pillow
python_packages:
  - Pillow
init_commands: []
log_level: info

AppDaemon 4 in Docker

See AppDaemon with Docker.

Using the files from ./docker in your CONF path, the Docker script will recursively search the CONF directory and install the system_packages.txt and requirements.txt files.

App configuration

config/appdaemon/apps/apps.yaml

media_lights_sync:
  module: media_lights_sync
  class: MediaLightsSync
  media_player: media_player.tv
  lights:
    - light.left_theatre_light
    - light.right_theatre_light
  ha_url: !secret ha_url
  reset_lights_after: true
  use_saturated_colors: false
  use_current_brightness: false
  condition:
    entity: input_boolean.sync_tv_lights
    state: "on"

1: See /developer-tools/state in your Home Assistant instance. This app will listen to changes on entity_picture_local and/or entity_picture attributes of your media_player entities.

Using a more complex condition

You can use a template condition to match more complex states:

condition:
  value_template: "{{ state_attr('media_player.tv', 'media_content_type') == 'movie' and is_state('sun.sun', 'below_horizon') }}"

The app will run if the condition returns True.

Selecting a quantization_method

There is four quantization method available, which change the way the colors palette is extracted:

• MedianCut: Default method. Mix colors in the image using their median value.
• FastOctree: Extract dominant colors. Use this option if you want more accurate colors.
• MaxCoverage: Mix colors based on their maximum coverage.
• libimagequant: High-quality conversion of RGBA images to 8-bit indexed-color (palette) images.

Alternatively, you can also combine this option with use_saturated_colors to get more vibrant colors.

Compatibility

This app should work with any media_player and RGB light integrations available in Home Assitant. That said, it has been tested and is working with the following devices:

• Media Players:
  • ChromeCast
  • Apple TV (hass-atv-beta)
  • Kodi
  • All Amazon media players (Fire TV, Echo Dot, Echo Show, etc.)
  • Spotify Integration
  • Logitech Squeezebox
  • Plex Media Player
• RGB Lights:
  • Philips Hue
  • ESPHome RGB Light using an ESP8266
  • Z-Wave
  • Lifx
  • TP-Link
  • Yeelight (YLDP02YL, YLDD02YL)

If you've found that this app is working with another device, just let me know so I can update this list.

Notes

• Based on music_lights.py from this project: https://github.com/astone123/appdaemon-apps.
• If you find a bug with another type of media player or light, PRs and detailed issues are welcome.
• Forum discussion: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/syncing-led-lights-to-playing-music/38850/21