So I purchased one of these 2 years ago for my son,
its £14.99 in the uk and shows all moon phases based on a single ir press, so 1 press is on full moon, 2 presses waxing, 3 presses cresent ect etc it cycles through each changes to each phaze.
So the task using any IR blaster compatitble with home assistant is to make this device smart, so when a smart button is pushed it cycles to the correct moon phaze that is actual acoording to the moon phaze for were you are.
first add moon under home assistant integrations
So first of is to learn the ir commands, if you have a home assistant compatible blaster that imports custom ir commands straight to ha then thats fine.
If you have the aqara m3 you need to learn the comand through that and then share it via a signal sync over matter.
So create one button press for power (which is power and cycle button of the moon device)
Then create one button for the off switch
Noiw go to helpers and create a toggle called moon_toggle
Then open up your stuidio code server in matter and add this under config/scripts.yaml
moon_phase_full:
alias: Moon Phase third quater
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
num_repeats: 10
delay_secs: 1
hold_secs: 0
device: moon
command: power
target:
entity_id: "your ir blaster or your signal from m3 hub here"
mode: single
icon: mdi:moon-last-quarter
moon_phase_waning_gibbous:
alias: Moon Phase waning gibbous
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
num_repeats: 11
delay_secs: 1
hold_secs: 0
device: moon
command: power
target:
entity_id: "your ir blaster or your signal from m3 hub here"
mode: single
icon: mdi:moon-waning-gibbous
moon_phase_waning_full:
alias: Moon Phase full
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
num_repeats: 1
delay_secs: 1
hold_secs: 0
device: moon
command: power
target:
entity_id: "your ir blaster or your signal from m3 hub here"
mode: single
icon: mdi:moon-full
moon_phase_waxing_gibbous:
alias: Moon Phase waxing cresent
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
num_repeats: 5
delay_secs: 1
hold_secs: 0
device: moon
command: power
target:
entity_id: "your ir blaster or your signal from m3 hub here"
mode: single
icon: mdi:moon-waxing-crescent
moon_phase_waxing_cresent:
alias: Moon Phase new moon
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
num_repeats: 7
delay_secs: 1
hold_secs: 0
device: moon
command: power
target:
entity_id: "your ir blaster or your signal from m3 hub here"
mode: single
icon: mdi:moon-new
moon_phase_first_qauter:
alias: Moon Phase first qauter
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
num_repeats: 4
delay_secs: 1
hold_secs: 0
device: moon
command: power
target:
entity_id: "your ir blaster or your signal from m3 hub here"
mode: single
icon: mdi:moon-first-quarter
moon_phase_waning_cresent:
alias: Moon Phase waning cresent
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
num_repeats: 9
delay_secs: 1
hold_secs: 0
device: moon
command: power
target:
entity_id: "your ir blaster or your signal from m3 hub here"
mode: single
icon: mdi:moon-waning-crescent
moon_phase_waxing_gibous:
alias: Moon Phase waxing gibous
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
num_repeats: 3
delay_secs: 1
hold_secs: 0
device: moon
command: power
target:
entity_id: "your ir blaster or your signal from m3 hub here"
mode: single
icon: mdi:moon-waxing-gibbous
moon_phase_off:
alias: Moon Phase off
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
num_repeats: 1
delay_secs: 1
hold_secs: 0
device: moon
command: 'off'
target:
entity_id: "your ir blaster or your signal from m3 hub here"
now you have added this reboot home assistant then create this automation
alias: 8.moon IR on
description: ""
triggers:
- entity_id:
- input_boolean.moon_toggle
to: "on"
from: "off"
trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: sensor.moon_phase
state: full_moon
then:
- data: {}
action: script.moon_phase_waning_full
else:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: sensor.moon_phase
state: waxing_gibbous
then:
- data: {}
action: script.moon_phase_waxing_gibous
else:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: sensor.moon_phase
state: first_quarter
then:
- data: {}
action: script.moon_phase_first_qauter
else:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: sensor.moon_phase
state: waning_crescent
then:
- data: {}
action: script.moon_phase_waxing_gibbous
else:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: sensor.moon_phase
state: waning_crescent
then:
- data: {}
action: script.moon_phase_waning_cresent
else:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: sensor.moon_phase
state: last_quarter
then:
- data: {}
action: script.moon_phase_full
else:
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: sensor.moon_phase
state: waning_gibbous
then:
- data: {}
action: script.moon_phase_waning_gibbous
mode: single
then create one for the off button
alias: 8.moon off
description: ""
triggers:
- entity_id:
- input_boolean.moon_toggle
from: "on"
to: "off"
trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
- data: {}
action: script.moon_phase_off
mode: single
Once this is done assing the input_bootlean.moon_toggle to a button, then when pressed the automation and script combined will check the current moon phaze and make the appropriate number of presses to set the mood light to match that nights moon phaze.
so for a cheap price you have a working moon phaze light for your kids.
example of how it lights up
Now if only aqara app team will allow moon fazes to be added:)