Home Assistant¶
The TinyPole desk pole works with Home Assistant. Add it once and it becomes a light you can automate, with every pattern as an effect, plus four kinds of feedback for things that happen in your home:
| Feedback | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Notify | A flash in a color for a few seconds (pulse, blink, chase or sparkle), then back to what it was playing |
| Progress | A bar that fills the pole from the base or the tip: a print, a download, a timer, a battery |
| Mood | A steady or breathing color, with an optional slow drift of hue along the pole |
| Party | Rainbow, confetti, strobe or disco, optionally reacting to the pole's own microphone |
Nothing leaves your network. Home Assistant talks to the controller already inside the pole, over your Wi-Fi, with no account, cloud service or firmware change. The integration is open source and installs through HACS or by copying one folder.
Setup, entities, actions and example automations: the TinyPole field guide.
Full-size poles¶
The Permanent, Portable and Aerial poles are driven by the PoleFX Player and are not Home Assistant devices. For show and building integration use DMX or pixel streaming from a media server. If you would like the Player itself in Home Assistant, tell us.