iHost RGB control

[chadodes]

Hello Tim and community.

I have successfully installed the RGB add-on and can control the initial RGB color at boot.

Great work.

What I would like to do is have the lights change to amber when there is an update available.

I tried exploring the RGB indicator entity but can't seem to figure out how to make this work. The entity has no history for me to reverse engineer.

Any insight is much appreciated.

[darkxst]

Its the same as any other light in HA, you can test in dev tools like below (but select the actual ihost light entity). Its somewhat similar in the automation editor as well. I am certain you will also find many examples of controlling lights on the community site under automations or blueprints!

[chadodes]

This is what I have so far:

'''
alias: Update Available RGB
description: "Change ihost indicator light to notify of available update. "
trigger:

• platform: state
  entity_id:
  • binary_sensor.updater
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
    condition: []
    action:
• service: light.toggle
  metadata: {}
  data:
  color_name: firebrick
  target:
  entity_id: light.indicator
  mode: single
  '''

[darkxst]

• binary_sensor.updater

I think this has been removed, if not its definitely deprecated for future removal.

What updates are you wanting to check for? homeassistant core? addons? each has its own update sensors for example:

Also your code tags didnt work for some reason!

[darkxst]

I have a blueprint here that uses the update sensors, its a bit more complicated than the simple "is there an update" check that you want.
https://github.com/darkxst/hascripts/blob/main/config/blueprints/automation/auto_update_minor_v2.yaml

if you just want to know if any update is available you can use:

{{ states.update  | selectattr('state', 'eq', 'on') }}

[chadodes]

I got it working just now.
I had to pick a color that is supported 😅

I changed it to orange and it worked.
Thanks!

[darkxst]

I had to pick a color that is supported

yes if you pick black it turns the LED off ;)