Timebox Home Assistant

Home Assistant custom component for Timebox-Evo

The only available and working libary to interact with the Timeboex-Evo is written in javascript: node-divoom-timebox-evo.

In order to make it work with Home Assistant, I made it accessble via a web API.

Installation

Finding the mac address of your Timebox-Evo

These steps may vary depending of your blutooth setup:

• run bluetoothctl
• run scan on

It should output a list of blutooth devices. Write down the mac address of your Timebox-Evo

You can try to connect to it to ensure it will work

• run connect MAC_ADDRESS

If you have the error Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed run trust MAC_ADDRESS and try again

• if it worked, disconnect the device, run disconnect

If you have any problem this guide may help you troubleshoot your issues.

Server

The server will communicate with the Timebox-Evo

The default server port is 5555, it can be override with the PORT environment variable

Requirement

The server need to have blutooth to communicate with the Timebox-Evo. It is recommended to run the server on the same machine as your home assistant.

Installation with docker

Docker is the recommended way of installing the server

docker

docker run --network host noerls/timebox-home-assistant

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'

services:
  timebox-server:
    container_name: timebox-server
    image: noerls/timebox-home-assistant
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host

Installation with npm

• clone the repository
• go in the ./server folder
• run npm install. If you run into dependencies issues it's likely because you lack of blutooth dependencies
• run npm build

Then whenever you want to start the server run: npm run-script start

Home Assistant custom component

Install the component

• clone the repository
• copy the timebox folder into HASS_CONFIG/custom_components/

Enable the component

In your configuration.yaml add en entry

notify:
  - name: timebox
    platform: timebox
    mac: 11:75:58:F2:B2:2B
    image_dir: timebox-images
    url: http://localhost:5555

• mac: mac address of your timebox-evo
• url: url to the server
• image_dir (optinal): a directory, relative to the configuration dir.

Usage

Here come the fun part, here is the list of possibility:

• displaying image from url
• displaying image from a local image
• changing the brightness
• displaying scrolling text
• switching to time channel

This custom component acts as a notify platform. This means that the Service Data requires a message parameter, even though we're not using it in all cases. Leave the message parameter blank, and specify TimeBox mode and other information in the data parameter of the Service Data payload.

Display an image

From a link

{
  "message": "",
  "data": {
    "mode": "image",
    "link": "https://example.com/picture.png"
  }
}

From a local file

{
  "message": "",
  "data": {
    "mode": "image",
    "file-name": "picture.png"
  }
}

In order to use this you must specify an image_dir in the config

This will use the image image_dir/FILENAME

Change the brightness

{
  "message": "",
  "data": {
    "mode": "brightness",
    "brightness": 50
  }
}

Change the brightness on a scale of 0 to 100

Display text

{
  "message": "",
  "data": {
    "mode": "text",
    "text": "Hello, World!"
  }
}

Display text (message parameter only)

If you only specify the message parameter, but leave the Service Data empty, it will automatically choose the text mode and display the message.

{
  "message": "Hello again, World!"
}

Switch to time channel

{
  "message": "",
  "data": {
    "mode": "time",
  }
}

Examples

Here are some examples from my configuration

Update timebox with album cover when song change

- alias: Update timebox with album cover when song change
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: media_player.spotify_noe_rivals
    attribute: entity_picture
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: notify.timebox
    data_template:
      message: ''
      data:
        mode: image
        link: 'http://localhost:8123{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.entity_picture }}'
  mode: single

Change the brightness when watching the TV

- alias: Switch light off when casting something
  description: ''
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: media_player.bedroom
      to: "playing"
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: notify.timebox
    data:
      message: ''
      data:
        mode: brightness
        brightness: 20

- alias: Switch light on when stoped casting
  description: ''
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: media_player.bedroom
      from: "playing"
      to:
        - "paused"
        - "off"
      for: "00:00:10"
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: notify.timebox
    data:
      message: ''
      data:
        mode: brightness
        brightness: 100

Credit

Bring thanks to node-divoom-timebox-evo library.

Custom component inspired from homeassistant-timebox.