Support for managing multiple rooms or groups of lights

[trainman419]

I suspect this either hasn't been considered yet, or it's still a ways in the future. Either way, consider this as an opportunity for brainstorming rather than as a full feature request.

I have a roommate. We have Hue lights in our living room, and a few more in my bedroom.
I would like the living room lights to turn on when either of us is home, and turn off when we both leave. The device_sun_light_trigger covers this fairly well.
I would also like for my bedroom lights to turn on when I come home, and to turn off when I leave. (regardless of where my roommate is).

This suggests a couple of changes that seem a little over my head at the moment:

• modifying the device_sun_light_trigger to work properly for a single user or group. I've started on this in Trigger on device groups #15, but I think it's incomplete.
• modifying the device_sun_light_trigger so that it's possible to create more than one of them. It looks like this was done for lights and switches in 0527760 , but I'm not sure how to extend that work to trigggers.

[balloob]

I think that going the same route as the support for multiple types is the best way to go. The core function that light and switch components use is a method called get_config_per_platform (L62 of helpers.py). We can extract a method out that will just yield all the different configurations for that domain:

def get_configs_for_domain(config, domain, logger):
    """
    Generator to get the different configurations for specified domain.
    For example, will find 'switch', 'switch 2', 'switch 3', .. etc
    """
    config_key = domain
    found = 1

    while config_key in config:
        yield config[config_key]
        found += 1
        config_key = "{} {}".format(domain, found)

Then rewrite config_per_platform to use that and then change device_sun_light_trigger to run the setup method for each config that is provided.

[trainman419]

Closing because the suggested method is no longer the correct way to implement this.