Help with basic integration with a smoke machine

[BlueWRXPride]

I would like to use this module to interface Home Assistant with a DMX smoke machine. My plan is to use ESPHome PIR motion sensors to trigger the smoke machine for X seconds. I also would like to have a switch on the Home Assistant dashboard to manually trigger the machine on and off. One of the smoke machines I have also has LED lighting, so a bonus would be to be able to control that lighting too, but that's less important for me.

[Breina]

Interesting use case.

For now it should be possible to treat the DMX channel the same as a 'binary' light. The only difference is that it would be a switch entity instead of a light entity.

Grouping lights and arbitrary switches and sliders in a single device is something that I have planned, anyway.

[Breina]

Related solutioning

For controlling arbitrary devices: jnimmo/hass-dmx#54

For grouping entities into devices: jnimmo/hass-dmx#62