Not to hijack your topic from its original subject or anything, but since you offered…
I was reading recently that there’s a Feedreader integration for Home Assistant, so one thing that would push me toward trying it out now is the idea that I could potentially have Home Assistant consume RSS feeds of schedules for my favorite sports teams (college basketball is about to start!) and then automatically change some interior LED colors (bulbs, light strips) to team colors shortly prior to game start times. I don’t know if that’s doable, but I also don’t know why it wouldn’t be, and it seems like a fun project to try at some point.
I already have Routines in Google Home set up for this and have for some time (currently disabled for off-season), but in the past what I’ve done is wait until after a game has started (like during a timeout or commercial break or something) or has finished and then manually updated the Routine’s start time for the next event on a team’s calendar. Automating this from an iCal or RSS feed would be cool.
What I suspect would be possible is just triggering the lights from Home Assistant with no need to involve Google Home at all, but, again, I’m just speculating from zero experience with this.
That’s a cool use case for your chicken coop lighting. I enjoyed reading that. Thanks for sharing!