libretiny-eu/upk2esphome

Support for ADC-based ambient light sensor

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Based on my tests (as I mentioned in libretiny-eu/libretiny#219), the mere existence of one of the keys: 'day', 'dusk', 'evenfall', 'evening' and 'night' suggest that there's an ADC-based ambient light sensor. There seem to be no configuration of ADC in UPK, but all of my 3 kind of lamps that have this use the same setup, which can be expressed in esphome yaml like this:

sensor:
  - platform: adc
    id: ambient
    name: Ambient
    unit_of_measurement: "V"
    state_class: "measurement"
    pin: P23

And the keys can be expressed as esphome select like this:

globals:
  - id: light_sensitivity
    type: int
    restore_value: no
    initial_value: '0'

select:
  - platform: template
    id: light_sensitivity_setting
    name: "Ambient light trigger"
    entity_category: config
    restore_value: yes
    options:
     - "Day"
     - "Dusk"
     - "Evenfall"
     - "Evening"
     - "Night"
    initial_option: "Evenfall"
    optimistic: true
    set_action:
      - logger.log:
          format: "Chosen option: %s"
          args: ["x.c_str()"]
    on_value:
      then:
        lambda: !lambda |-
          if (i == 1)
          {
            id(light_sensitivity) = 0.157f;
          }
          else
          if (i == 2)
          {
            id(light_sensitivity) = 1.800f;
          }
          else
          if (i == 3)
          {
            id(light_sensitivity) = 2.100f;
          }
          else
          if (i == 4)
          {
            id(light_sensitivity) = 2.180f;
          }
          else id(light_sensitivity) = 0.0f;

The above thresholds are taken from UPK itself of course.

My python knowledge is yet too basic to try the pull request, so I'm leaving this to someone else to try :)

Thanks for posting this. My device has similar keys and functionality. The light sensitivity setting code above doesn't seem to do anything on my device, but I was able to set up a text sensor to display the light level as read by my device's light sensor, based on your ADC sensor. I used the day, dusk, evenfall, evening, and night keys from the original config as voltage thresholds (apparently in mV), though I'm going to end up adjusting them for my own usage since my device's sensor is almost always in the shade.

text_sensor:
  - platform: template
    id: text_sensor_ambient
    name: Ambient Light Sensor

sensor:
  - platform: adc
    pin: ADC3
    id: adc_ambient
    name: Ambient ADC Value
    unit_of_measurement: "V"
    state_class: "measurement"
# This `on_value` trigger will update the text sensor based on the voltage thresholds read from the original config
# in my device's case, they looked like this:
#   "day": 0,
#   "dusk": 200,
#   "evenfall": 1500,
#   "evening": 1800,
#   "night": 2150,
    on_value:
      then:
        - lambda: |-
            if (x > 2.15) {
              id(text_sensor_ambient).publish_state("Night");
            }
            else if (x > 1.8) {
              id(text_sensor_ambient).publish_state("Evening");
            }
            else if (x > 1.5) {
              id(text_sensor_ambient).publish_state("Evenfall");
            }
            else if (x > 0.2) {
              id(text_sensor_ambient).publish_state("Dusk");
            }
            else {
              id(text_sensor_ambient).publish_state("Day");
            }

I then set my own "light sensitivity trigger" by adding the following condition to my on_press that handles turning on the light when the PIR pin goes high. In my case, I only want it to turn on the light if it is sufficiently dark outside (basically "evening" or darker):

binary_sensor:
  - platform: gpio
    pin: P6
    name: PIR Sensor
    id: binary_sensor_pir
    device_class: motion
    on_press:
      if:
        condition:
          sensor.in_range:
              id: adc_ambient
              above: 1.8
        then:
          - light.turn_on: light_flood

Separate from this, my device has a PIR sensitivity setting that I think can be inferred from the configuration. I will create an issue to detail what I've found.