added manual mode

room_control.py

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class RoomController(Hass, Mqtt):
         Parsed states have an absolute time for the current day.
         """
         # re-parse the state strings into times for the current day
-        self._room_config = RoomControllerConfig(**self.args)
+        self._room_config = RoomControllerConfig.model_validate(self.args)
         self.log(f'{len(self._room_config.states)} states in the app configuration', level='DEBUG')
 
         for state in self._room_config.states:
@@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ class RoomController(Hass, Mqtt):
         else:
             return False
 
+    def manual_mode(self) -> bool:
+        if manual_entity := self.args.get('manual_mode'):
+            return self.get_state(manual_entity) == 'on'
+        else:
+            return False
+
     # @sleep_bool.setter
     # def sleep_bool(self, val) -> bool:
     #     if (sleep_var := self.args.get('sleep')):
@@ -213,7 +219,7 @@ class RoomController(Hass, Mqtt):
 
     def activate_any_on(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """Activate if any of the entities are on. Args and kwargs are passed directly to self.activate()"""
-        if self.any_on():
+        if self.any_on() and not self.manual_mode():
             self.activate(*args, **kwargs)
         else:
             self.log('Skipped activating - everything is off')