Home-Assistant Custom Components

A proving ground for new compontents that I'm working on. The intention is to contribute them back to Home Assistant once they have been refined/tested.

Component Overview

• AquaIllumination Lights
• Seneye Water Sensors
• uHoo Air Quality Monitor

AquaIllumination Lights

Support for a range of aquarium lights, from AquaIllumination.

Based on top of one of a python modules I wrote, AquaIPy. There is no documented API for AquaIllumination lights, so this has all had to be reverse engineered. Beta quality component, but still its use is at your own risk.

A brief rundown of features/caveats:

• This component implements 3 different types of platforms, for each light. A schedule enabled switch, a light for each channel and a sensor for each channel.
• Each individual light channel appears as a different light entity.
• Each individual light channel also has a corresponding sensor entity, with the brightness level. This is useful for graphing the light channel levels.
• It is possible to turn off the "scheduled mode" for the light but if it isn't turned off, then light brightness changes will appear for a few seconds then change back to the normal schedule.
• Support is only for the HD range of lights. No support for earlier models yet.
• No support for setting more than one channel at once.
• No support for increasing the channels to over 100% (the HD range). Although a schedule can still set values over 100%.

A sample configuration is shown below. This adds a light entity for each of the colour channels called _.

aquaillumination:
  - host: 192.168.1.100
    name: sump ai
  - host: 192.168.1.101
    name: dt ai

I've been using this component with this custom lovelace entity, which works pretty well. A sample lovelace configuration for this component is below, showing how multiple light entities are created.

entities:
  - entity: light.sump_ai_uv
    step: 1
    type: 'custom:slider-entity-row'
  - entity: light.sump_ai_violet
    step: 1
    type: 'custom:slider-entity-row'
  - entity: light.sump_ai_royal
    step: 1
    type: 'custom:slider-entity-row'
  - entity: light.sump_ai_blue
    step: 1
    type: 'custom:slider-entity-row'
  - entity: light.sump_ai_green
    step: 1
    type: 'custom:slider-entity-row'
  - entity: light.sump_ai_deep_red
    step: 1
    type: 'custom:slider-entity-row'
  - entity: light.sump_ai_cool_white
    step: 1
    type: 'custom:slider-entity-row'
title: Sump Prime HD
type: entities