This is an expansion/wrapper to NetDaemon
While this is just a personal project, the goal is to create an additional abstraction layer on top of NetDaemon to help organize some of the more cryptic or manual elements of navigating Home Assistant's API.
Features include:
This wrapper handles lighting through Managed Light (MLight) objects which can store and blend several layers of color. What might layering be good for? Let's say your "base white" that you use on a day-to-day basis changes from cool white to warm white depending on the time of day. Now let's say you want to apply a forest theme to the room's lighting. On top of that, you want a light to turn red if you left your front door unlocked.
- When you close the door, you want that light to return to its theme color.
- When you turn off the theme, you want to return to your base color.
- If you change the theme, you don't want it to override your door-unlocked indicator.
- Nor do you want any updates to your base color to override your currently-selected theme.
This wrapper stores each of these elements as separate layers and shows the values depending on their priority. Similarly, each of these layers can be blended together for more complex lighting heirarchies.
Commercial smart lighting generally operates in a Hue/Saturation/Brightness color space, while custom devices often use 8-bit-per-channel RGB and 8-bit brightness. This wrapper unifies RGB8+8 to RGB16
Lights can store coordinates describing their location. This means lighting can be controlled with spatial awareness. Allowing effects such as location-based animations, or scenes configured in physical space. After running NDW at least once, it will create a LightConfig.xml file. This can be edited manually, though this may get tedious with lots of lights. So to assist, I've created the NDWConfigurator which allows lights to be positioned via GUI.