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Published inSep 2023
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Marco Carvalho
Marco Carvalho
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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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Creating an automation using the LED strip controller

As mentioned, the advantage of having the LED strip controller integrated into Home Assistant is being able to use the WLED integration entities in coordination with other parameters to create an automation.

In the case of our LED strip controller, we will need to consider what we can associate to use the two playlists created for the Halloween and Christmas seasons. The first thing we can associate is daytime. We only need the LED strip controller to be turned on at night and not the entire night – maybe until midnight or for four hours after sunset. So I decided that we need both playlists to be executed after sunset for 4 hours. The second factor to associate and distinguish between the two playlists is the time of the year. The Halloween playlist should be executed in October (or month number 10) and the Christmas playlist should be executed in December (or month number 12). In summary, the automation to be created...

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801815291

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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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