Color Extractor for Bias lighting in Home Assistant

Did you know that Home Assistant has built in Bias lighting? Yes, you can have Ambilight with just Home Assistant and LED strip or light.
Today we will activate color extractor in Home Assistant for fast and easy, not to say simple and inexpensive alternative to Amblilight. It is limited, but it works. And you can have it running in under 5 minutes.

If you want something with more functionality but also more complex - check this awesome video from @EverythingSmartHome : https://youtu.be/J26oYlKyq7Q

Color Extractor integration:
⏵https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/color_extractor/

00:00 Intro
00:21 Thank you for all of thelighting support!
00:40 Ambilight or bias
02:03 Activate Color Extractor integration
02:43 Color Extractor automation
06:07 Allow external URL
07:26 Let's test it
08:39 Final words

⏵Sample automation:

- id: '1631551367852'
alias: Loft TV to LED light
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.loft_tv
condition: []
action:
- service: color_extractor.turn_on
data_template:
color_extract_url: '{{ states.media_player.loft_tv.attributes.entity_picture }}'
entity_id: light.wled_2
transition: 3
brightness_pct: 100
mode: single

⏵Sample allow external URL:

allowlist_external_urls:
- https://i.ytimg.com/

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