Color change times out after 60 seconds about home-assistant-prismatik

[zomfg]

Hi
some adalight sketches have a timeout built in, so you could disable that, or in Prismatik > Expert tab, try flipping "Send data only if colors changed" checkbox

[Hukuma1]

Hmmm. I see, so I actually like the time out feature from the sketch to stay on for my screen grab function (if I'm away from my computer, it turns off, great).

But for specific colors or commands sent from HA, I'd like to leave it on. At which point I could also automate to turn off within HA.

I already have the "send data only if colors changed" turned on. I tried the same with it off and HA color would still turn off after the timeout (60 in my sketch I believe). (It stayed on with screen grabbing, even past my time out. But in HA it would turn off no matter what setting was in Prismatik.)

[zomfg]

which Prismatik version are you using?

[Hukuma1]

software 5.11.2.30 (rev 25c8dfe, Qt 5.15.2)

[zomfg]

imo, unchecking that box is what you want for your use case, but make sure you do it with HA profiles (in Prismatik) as it's tied to them
so maybe when you tested, you did it with your pc profile and when HA took over it enabled the checkbox again

[Hukuma1]

Oh I see, brilliant. I wasn't aware that was a per-profile setting.

So the weird thing is that it works if I switch the color in Prismatik. Mood lamp profile with custom color. Goes past the 60 second time out and still on.

If I still try to change the color via HA, it times out. :/

[zomfg]

ha.. it looks like Prismatik does not work the same way depending on how you set modes/colors:

• via UI it'll continue sending frames
• via API (what HA uses) it stops everything once it gets some commands

so for now, changing your sketch is the next best thing

[Hukuma1]

Ahh. Well now we know. :) I guess I could put in a simple keep-alive method in HA by just spamming the same color change for now.