Quiet Mode Toggle

[lordratner]

It would be really handy to have a "Quiet Mode" or "Sleep Mode" toggle in addition to the quiet hours, for non-predictable schedules. For example, if my kids go down for a nap, and I use the nap automation, it could put the VB into quiet mode without having to adjust the times. Then the board would come out of quiet mode either when the integration end_time passes (if set), or when the toggle for quiet mode is manually turned off.

I think the way to make this change would be:

Easiest:
Expose a switch entity in HA that the user can turn on and off. When the quiet_hours() check is run. add a line to check if the switch is on. There is no connection between the switch and the start/end times.

Fancier
Check the time within the integration and when the quiet_start passes, turn the switch on. When quiet_end passes, turn the switch off. Then change quiet_hours() to only check if the switch is on or off. This allows the user to turn off the time-based quiet hours with the switch one time, and the behavior will reset once the quiet hours have ended.

I think I can work my way through this idea eventually, but I wanted to see what your thoughts are.

[natekspencer]

I like the idea of a quiet hours toggle. I could argue for both ways, but I think I prefer the fancier solution as well. That way you could manually override both the on or off status of the quiet hours until the next scheduled start/end time. With that being said, if no quiet hours have been configured, does it become permanent until disabled (either manually or via an automation)?

[lordratner]

That would be my preference. No set hours means you want full manual control. With this construct you could also set only a start or an end time. So for example, you never want the quiet mode to activate automatically, but you want it to deactivate every morning (if used previously) then you could just set a quiet_end time and use the toggle without having to remember to turn it back on.

That's even fancier, and a pretty niche use case, but it is what came to mind when you asked.

[natekspencer]

I think that sounds good to me