[Feature request]: Resume MQTT stream from Firefly, triggered by MQTT about firefly_luciferin

[sblantipodi]

Hi @jypma, thanks for your interest in the project.

Home assistant integration has a ready to use package that gives you some hints on the MQTT topic to use for the various commands.

The solid effect button:

triggers an automation that starts and stops the bias light effect (screen capture).

The topic used for this is:
lights/glowwormluciferin

the payload you can use to start and stop is this:
{"state":"ON","startStopInstances":"STOP"}
{"state":"ON","startStopInstances":"PLAY"}

hope it helped.

[jypma]

Thanks for the explanation! I had indeed added the included home_assistant_luciferin_package.yaml to Home Assistant already.

By updating my Kodi automations to set the "Solid Effect" input boolean to false after starting a movie, and to true after it, the light is working perfectly in both modes.

Coincidentally, it somehow also solved the issue of Firefly crashing with "Cannot connect to Glow Worm" at times. I'll report back if this happens again.

Have you considered having Glow Worm make use of Home Assistant MQTT auto-discovery? It would just require the ESP to put a persistent message into MQTT on startup.

[sblantipodi]

@jypma sorry for the late reply and thanks for the answer.

Have you considered having Glow Worm make use of Home Assistant MQTT auto-discovery? It would just require the ESP to put a persistent message into MQTT on startup.

Adding MQTT auto-discorvery for HA is something that I want to add in the next releases but I need to understand how to do it in a good way.
If you have some suggestions is really welcomed.

Feel free to add a feature request for it if you want to see implemented in the next future.

thanks!