Movie light automation

General
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Previously I had Home Assistant installed with NR on a Pi3, but it was becoming increasingly sluggish and it was suggested I install NR as a standalone product on my Pi. I've done this and have set up a simple light scheduler that works well.

Now I would like to create a flow that emulates this flow I had in HA.

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It uses a Hue bridge to connect to all light switches (HT lights), GPO (HT Power) and Zigbee Smart Outlet Socket (Millen Falc Switch).

So…What I’d like is:

  • When I turn on HT Power from the Hue app, it will turn on my equip rack and HT Lights & Millen Falc Switch.
    Then when Kodi was running
  • Turn off lights when a movie or tv show is playing
  • Turn lights on when a movie or tv show is paused
  • Turn lights on when a movie or tv show is finished or stopped - idle

This worked most of the time but now I have migrated from a Libreelec Kodi installed on a HTPC to an Nvidia Shield TV Pro that has 3 streaming services Netflix, Amazon Prime & Disney+ (today I hope in Oz!!) and Kodi to stream media from my QNAPNAS.

So, now my conundrum, how/what do I use to create a flow for the above scenario?? I have searched for days but cannot find any references of how to use an Nvidia Shield TV pro to accomplish this.

2

There is a hue plugin for node-red, but also for Kodi, isn't easier to control it from there ?

3

There is and I have used the NR option in HA...but now I want to run NR without HA.

What would be great is if I can do this on the Shield TV for all apps as listed...not just Kodi.

Is it possible?

4

Doubt it, as it would require an API that you can read when something is stopped/started.
Easier to control that part from/via a remote control (like a harmony)

5

the big trick becomes detecting whether the app is playing or not. Kodi provides that, but for other apps, it's up to them. I know netflix does have something like that built in (it's how casting actually works behind the scenes) but i'm not sure if it's open. As for disney+, it's early days.
I've had some personal success using logitech harmony as my remote, but to simulate my play/pause detection i'm actually just splitting the output from a dashboard button to multiple events (until I get an IR receiver set up to sniff all IR traffic, using the harmony remote itself doesn't give me this option.)

6

Thanks bakman2 & JayDickson for your comments.

I will resort to doing it old school using Hue app along with Shield remote for now.

Just a thought on the Shield remote, it is a bluetooth device .... can the play, pause, stop functions be used in any way to achieve what I would like??