Feature request: More modes about entity-controller HOT 7 CLOSED

Can you explain more?

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Sure:
Now you can make settings for "Day" and for "Night".
But I'd like to have a few more (like day, evening, night, and cleaning).

For cleaning mode, I want all lights to be full brightness, to stay on for longer, and so on

I'm aware of the 'override' and 'state' - but if I wan't a specific set of settings to be applied when - and only when - 'cleaning mode' is 'on' I'll have to make a "inverted-cleaning-mode"-boolean that is 'on' when I don't want these settings to be applied and 'off' when they should - as well as it is necessary to make a "double up" on settings, as it counts for most of my lights - and soon we'll back to the old "zillion of copies of the same automation" (which I'm in the process of getting rid of due to your work 👍).

In other words, I guess it's some kind of integration/cooperation with the concept of "house modes" that I'm trying to describe :-)

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Adding night_mode was very presumptive to begin with. I will think about this because it will make the component less "motion lighting" specific (which is a good thing as its usecases are very diverse).

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I guess this can be merged with my request

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This is the feature that I'd been hoping for. It was the only thing that had me hesitating to try entity controller in the first place. Besides the lack of this, this has been a great add-on for my Home Assistant install.

My use case: My wife prefers dim lights in our office when she's working early in the morning (25%). We need 100% during the day. Then I'd prefer to have about 60-70% after sunset. I'd also change the light color depending on time of day. I could probably rig all of this up by including the same sensor and bulb groups in non-overlapping entity controller objects. But I'd like to have it all in one.

Regardless, thank you for your work, @danobot .

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What is the motivation for having this all in one EC object? I was looking into this and it would be a lot of work to support it and we wouldn't achieve anything that can't already be configured with the component.

It doesn't simplify the configuration either because you'd have to define config for each mode anyway. All we are saving is a few lines defining the entities plus some.

This is not really a good reason to introduce a complex feature such as handling more modes as it would impact most of the code base and make it even more difficult to comprehend.

Creating non overlapping instances is the way to achieve multiple modes.

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