Quite just a few years in the past I got here across Lighten Up! Coupled with a halogen bulb (that’d start out very yellow at lowest brightness) I had a beautiful sunrise-like alarm clock and it was a lot, much nicer than a beeping alarm. The LCD displays within the Lighten Up! I couldn’t change the programming, which was a problem as the clocks in them drifted by a pair minutes per 30 days. With a combination of COVID-19 remote work eliminating the necessity for an alarm clock and the gadgets dying, within the trash they went. I’ve been making an attempt to use an alarm to remain on a more regular sleep schedule and whereas a bunch of other wake-up lights are available, they are dedicated items which might be mainly alarm clocks with built in lights. I really favored the elegance of the Lighten Up! I couldn’t find anything prefer it. For EcoLight outdoor some time I thought of developing my own hardware model that’d additionally work with LED EcoLight smart bulbs, but never acquired around to it.
This winter I’ve been experimenting with Dwelling Assistant (HA), and it seems that with a couple low cost Zigbee elements (bulb and pushbutton from IKEA) it permits for a wonderful substitute/upgrade sunrise alarm thought. A next-generation Lighten Up! With every part put collectively the lamp subsequent to my mattress will now slowly come up to brightness quarter-hour earlier than the wake-up alarm on my phone, reaching remaining as the conventional alarm triggers. If I change the alarm time on my telephone, or shut it off, the light-up alarm in HA will observe suit. Moreover, a physical button on the nightstand turns off the light off while replicating a sunrise alarm, or otherwise toggles the light on and off. Even higher, if I’m not house or if the alarm is about for aside from between 3:00 AM and 9:00 AM (occasions throughout which I’d likely be in mattress and wanting to wake up) the light won’t activate. This enables me to make use of alarms during the traditional day for different things with out activating with the sunshine, or while traveling without waking Kristen.
Between this and the gently-growing volume (and vibration) alarm constructed into the Android clock which triggers at the end of the sunrise cycle it’s a really nice, gradual wake-up system. And, EcoLight all of this happens with none cloud providers or ongoing subscriptions. My HA instance is native