Looking for some beta testers for a new feature in Aqara Advanced Lighting, audio/music reactive dynamic scenes. You’ll need to enable pre-releases in the integration settings.
This new feature works in tandem with an ESPHome device flashed with custom firmware that analyses environmental sound and outputs a variety of sensors such as beat detection and amplitude to Home Assistant, which this new feature then translates into music reactive dynamic scenes. It can work with any pre-existing dynamic scene preset by overriding the transition and hold time settings.
Initial firmware builds for 4 cheap off-the-shelf ESP32 devices are included, the M5Stack Atom Echo ($13/£13), M5Stack Atom Echo S3R ($15/£15), Waveshare ESP32-S3 Audio Board ($18/£18), and M5StickC Plus2 ($20/£20). These can be flashed with the custom firmware using a simple web installer, no specialist ESP32 knowledge is needed. The firmware can also be adapted to any ESP32 device with a microphone.
For more detailed information on how this feature works please see the dedicated documentation page.
If you’re trying out this new feature, please give your feedback in the Github discussions page for this release.
New
Audio-reactive dynamic scenes
Preset Favorites Lovelace dashboard card
Improvements
Favorite light and entity selection added to user persistent storage
Replace externally paused text with color-coded entity chips
CCT slider to color picker
Expose more ZHA device attributes for native HA controls
Fixes
Eliminate forced reflow during drag in transition curve graph
RGB input fields snap back
Off-state restoration for stopping presets on segments lights
Version 1.2.0 is now out, and introduces audio-reactive lighting for dynamic scenes, a Lovelace preset favorites card, the ability to hide build-in presets, and a major codebase refactor for maintainability. It also adds CCT slider support in the color picker, allows CCT-only lights in dynamic scenes, and selected Favorite lights now persist across reloads and devices.
Audio-Reactive Lighting
Dynamic scene changes can now be synced to music through an ESPHome audio sensor
This new feature works in tandem with cheap off-the-shelf ESPHome devices flashed with a custom firmware that analyses environmental sound and outputs a variety of sensors such as beat detection and amplitude to Home Assistant, which this new feature then translates into music reactive dynamic scenes. It can work with any pre-existing dynamic scene preset by overriding the transition and hold time settings.
