FR: Integrated measuring

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FR: Integrated measuring

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Yes I did some consideration lately about creating a script using Home Assistant for both the light and power meter, as this allows more users to contribute lights.

The simplest solution would be to create another script utilizing the Home Assistant API for this. The script would ask the user to enter the entity id for the light and the entity id for the power meter, and the script will iterate through all the color/brightness settings (logic can be copied from current measure script).
My biggest concern is about the latency (between setting the light and getting the measurement). First because there are more abstraction layers and components involved with this approach. Secondly there are so many smart power plugs (zwave, zigbee, tuya, wifi plugs, esp based) around which all have there different characteristics and update times. And how to know if the power meter is updated correctly after setting the light to another setting.

That's why I choose to directly use the hue bridge and shelly plug because it has the lowest latency this way, and because I knew if this was working for me it would also work correctly for others using the same hardware.

I am developing this component in my spare time, which is quite scarce. So I have to make priorities. I think I don't like to support all kind of different power meters, home assistant installations (configurations) and the problems they potentially could have. Especially because I don't own the hardware myself.

Still I will consider building the script to use HA directly, but don't know when or if I will do it.
But I am happy to accept any PR.

Cool you can contribute with some more signify lights! keep them coming. Also check #87 which will soon be merged if you are not doing any duplicates.

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@see #110

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Will close this issue, keep an eye on the PR please, hass script will be available in some time.