The wiki mentions Adaptive Lighting, but magic area light groups don't show up?

[GollyJer]

I'm using Adaptive Lighting, but after setting up Magic Areas light groups the entities don't show up as accessible in the list of light entity ids to choose from.

Something I'm missing, or not supported? Thanks!

[tbrasser]

To me these seem complementary:

adaptive lighting on your "real" lights, to configure their color temp and brightness throughout the day. Then magic_areas for toggling them on/off.

[GollyJer]

I'm using both and they are definitely complementary.
What I'm getting at is more a simplification of the process than anything else.
I was hoping to not have to set up light groups and magic areas for the same area.
e.g.

• light.office is a helper > group > light with 4 bulbs.
• light.magic_areas_light_groups_office_all_lights has the same 4 bulbs.

Adaptive Lighting only shows light.office in it's list.
I would be awesome if it showed light.magic_areas_light_groups_office_all_lights so we don't need to create a separate light group just for Adaprive Lighting to use.

I'm just curious if this is something that isn't possible, or if it's something that would need to be handled on the Adaptive Lighting side.

[tbrasser]

For me adaptive lighting settings are mostly brand/device specific (e.g. different supported cct range, 10% brightness on light 1 is similar to 25% brightness on another, etc)

so I have mostly 1 adaptive lighting config per bulb/type.

But I get what you mean now, maybe "lightener" component can help out? https://github.com/fredck/lightener

[jseidl]

I just checked and it's showing up on mine...

Try reloading the Adaptive Lighting instance, see if it is a "race condition" of sorts of who loads first.

[GollyJer]

Interesting! I might have to try remove the light groups I've already created and maybe these will come up?
This would be ideal. Thanks for showing me. I'll keep this thread updated.

[GollyJer]

OK, figured it out. Once I went into the light setup and added any overhead lights, then the _all_lights and overhead_lights entities get created and showed up in Adaptive Lighting. If all you do is enable light groups in Magic Areas it seems the all_lights group isn't created.

[jseidl]

If all you do is enable light groups in Magic Areas it seems the all_lights group isn't created.

This is a bug. Can you open an issue?