Lights

Lights

Home Assistant is pretty consistent in how it controls lights, but I don't love the dashboard controls that are built in. My preference is the custom:light-entity-card that you can find in HACS.

Note that I do not have ColorLogic V2 lights which give additional controls for speed and brightness which would likely need even more work to really implement nicely into a dashboard, but I'll leave that to someone else who has them to come up with! :)

For my purposes I use a simple custom:light-entity-card which gives me the following:

When you turn on the lights, the drop down to choose your effect will show up. Get the custom:light-entity-card from HACS and then use the following:

shorten_cards: false
consolidate_entities: false
child_card: false
hide_header: false
header: Pool Lights
color_wheel: false
persist_features: false
brightness: false
color_temp: false
white_value: false
color_picker: false
smooth_color_wheel: false
speed: true
intensity: true
force_features: false
show_slider_percent: false
full_width_sliders: false
brightness_icon: weather-sunny
white_icon: file-word-box
temperature_icon: thermometer
speed_icon: speedometer
intensity_icon: transit-connection-horizontal
effects_list: true
entity: light.knight_home_pool_lights
type: custom:light-entity-card

Note: Light controls with Hayward are SLOW (same as with their app). It will take a while to trigger and update in the app when you make changes.