Lights

Goals

The goal was that we wanted to control multiple lamps and groups via Rhasspy and Node-Red.
We wanted to be able to:

• toggle a light on and off
• change the brightness
• change the color (if possible)

Rhasspy

In Rhasspy we have to add new lines to the sentences.ini:

    [ChangeLightState]
    schalte (bitte) (die | das | meine | mein) $name $light_state
    schalte (bitte) (die | das | meine | mein) $name (auf) $light_color

Brackets declare an optional section (you do not have to say “bitte”, but you may do it).
The | separates alternative words.
$name or $light_state are references to slots, which we have to add at the “slots” index tab:

   (wohnzimmerlampe | zimmerlampen | testlampen) {name}

A slot describes a variable, which later is used to differentiate groups or colors.

Example sentences

Some example sentences are:

    1. schalte bitte meine zimmerlampen ein
    2. schalte die wohnzimmerlampe auf grün


    3. schalte testlampen rot
    4. schalte bitte das wohnzimmerlampe warmweiß

As you can see Rhasspy do not check the grammar, but since we only use the slots in Node-Red, that does not matter.
(Slots for 4. are wohnzimmerlampe and warmweiß)

Node-Red

You can find the flow for this feature here.

ChangeLightState

The link-in-node is coming from the “Intent-Switch”.

The nodes are used for:

• function-node: sets msg.payload to msg.slots and msg.topic based on msg.slots.name
• switch-node: switches based on the keys of msg.payload (e.g. msg.payload.light_state)
• function-node(top): sets msg.payload to “ON” and “OFF” based on input
• function-node(bottom): sets msg.payload to a color (e.g. {"color":{"r":223,"g":223,"b":223},"transition":2} => white with transition-time of 2 seconds)
• function-node(“feedback”): creates TTS-feedback
• link-node(top): just links to our main TTS-node
• link-node(bottom): just links to a default mqtt-out-node (topic and payload are set by previous function-nodes)

What’s Next?

How to get the current time?