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Fado light fader custom integration for Home Assistant
Description from clintongormley/ha-fado
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Supports
- Works locallyTalks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
- From the MarketplaceInstalled through the Marketplace, formerly HACS.
- Actively maintainedIts author released or pushed a change in the last six months.
Setting it up
Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services.
After setup
- Show sidebar panelShow the Fado UI as a sidebar panel visible to all users. Disable this if you prefer to use a Lovelace dashboard with the custom:fado-card instead.
- Notify about unconfigured lightsCreate a repair under Settings → System → Repairs when lights are detected without Fado configuration.
- Dashboard URLURL path for your custom Fado dashboard (e.g. /lovelace-fado/0). Used as the repair's link when the sidebar panel is disabled. Leave blank to omit the link.
Texts from the code of clintongormley/ha-fado.
Actions
- Fade lightsFades lights to a desired brightness and/or color over a specified transition period.
- Brightness
- Transition time
- Color temperature
- HS color
- Color
- RGBW color
- RGBWW color
- XY color
- Starting values
- Easing curve
- Exclude lightsExcludes lights from Fado. Excluded lights are ignored by fade operations and state tracking.
- Include lightsRe-includes previously excluded lights so they respond to fade operations again.
Troubleshooting
- DiagnosticsDownloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report.
- Repair noticesNotices it can show in Settings, Repairs:Lights need configuration
From the README
A Home Assistant custom integration, available from the Home Assistant Marketplace and from HACS, that provides smooth light fading for brightness, colors, and color temperatures, with automatic brightness restoration, autoconfiguration via the UI, and support for native transitions.
start a bedtime fade, interrupt it at the wall switch, and watch Fado restore the brightness you chose.
Information
- Installs
- 50 sharing analytics
- GitHub stars
- 15
- Connection
- Works locally
- Upkeep
- Updated in the last 6 months
- Version
- v2.3.0,
- Category
- Lighting
- Kind
- Marketplace integration
- Needs
- Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older)
- Domain
fado- Issues
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