Different color and brigtness update times

[zsojma]

Hello, is there please a way how to set it up to have a postponed sunset time to adjust only brightness and at the same time to use color temp based on regular sunset time?

I would like to achieve a behavior where a light shines 100% until 8 PM regardless of sunset time but I want the color to change gradually to low temperatures that are more convenient for the current day-time.

I tried to setup two adaptive lightning entries to control the same lights where one adjusts only color and another only brightness, but it does not seem to work:

- name: dining_brightness
  lights:
    - light.dining_lgt_table_1
    - light.dining_lgt_table_2
    - light.dining_lgt_table_3
    - light.dining_lgt_side

  min_brightness: 30
  max_brightness: 100
  min_color_temp: 2700
  max_color_temp: 2700
  min_sunset_time: "20:00:00"

- name: dining_color
  lights:
    - light.dining_lgt_table_1
    - light.dining_lgt_table_2
    - light.dining_lgt_table_3
    - light.dining_lgt_side

  min_brightness: 100
  max_brightness: 100
  min_color_temp: 2700
  max_color_temp: 6500

And the script starts both like this:

      - service: switch.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id:
            - "switch.adaptive_lighting_dining_color"
            - "switch.adaptive_lighting_dining_brightness"
            - "switch.adaptive_lighting_adapt_color_dining_color"
            - "switch.adaptive_lighting_adapt_brightness_dining_brightness"
      - service: switch.turn_off
        target:
          entity_id:
            - "switch.adaptive_lighting_adapt_color_dining_brightness"
            - "switch.adaptive_lighting_adapt_brightness_dining_color"

When the lights turn on, the first command through MQTT is the following:

{
    "state": "ON"
}

And the second one is this:

{
    "state": "ON",
    "transition": 1,
    "brightness": 254
}

I would expect one command to set just brightness and another just color_temp. Is this a supported functionality and if so, can someone please spot what I'm doing wrong?

Note: I also looks to me that there are no other commands sent to the lights after turn on. It seems that the entries are in conflict and the both stop working.
(I'm using some other entries for different lights and those work correctly, but this is a first case where I would like to detach brightness sunset time from color one)

[zsojma]

What's interesting that when I turn off and back on one of those adaptive lightning entries manually in UI (when the lights are on), everything starts working as expected

[Lemonius]

Thank you for the great software!

I have been wanting this too, I want temperature to follow the sun, but brightness follow the time of day. Living up north gives very short periods of daylight, and I can't have cozy din lighing from early afternoon :)

My suggested solution right now is to add a check box to allow temperature to follow the sun. But ideally we could have separate curves and times for both temperature and brightness.

Example: For a day that has daylight from 10am to 2pm, I'd like the temperature to be 3800k at noon, then dip to 2700k at sunset with full brightness, and then at night around 9pm dip further to 2200k and dim the lights.

I guess some of this could be done with sleep mode, so only a toggle to have temperature follow the sun would be nice. It could have the same curve (tahn) as brightness.

[nekajcasa]

I’ve implemented a solution for independent control of color temperature and brightness timing.

There is now a PR open that allows color temperature to follow the sun independently from brightness (e.g. brightness following time-of-day).

PR: https://github.com/nekajcasa/AL-indepent-brightnes-and-color/tree/separate-color-brightness-control-pr

Feedback and testing welcome.

[aalyokhin]

@nekajcasa, many thanks for your work. I've been missing this a lot. In my area, sunset is around 4:30 PM, and I'd love to use that as a starting point for the temperature transition, but use a fixed time for the brightness transition to start from 9:30 PM. Otherwise, I end up with 1% lights at 7 PM or something if using sunset time, or cold lights for the whole evening until 9:30 PM.
Hope this gets merged soon.