Quite a few years in the past I came throughout Lighten Up! Coupled with a halogen bulb (that’d start out very yellow at lowest brightness) I had an exquisite sunrise-like alarm clock and it was much, a lot nicer than a beeping alarm. The LCD displays in the Lighten Up! I couldn’t change the programming, which was a hassle as the clocks in them drifted by a couple minutes monthly. With a mix of COVID-19 distant work eliminating the need for EcoLight an alarm clock and the gadgets dying, in the trash they went. I’ve been making an attempt to make use of an alarm to stay on a extra common sleep schedule and while a bunch of different wake-up lights are available, they are dedicated items that are basically alarm clocks with in-built lights. I actually preferred the elegance of the Lighten Up! I couldn’t discover anything like it. For some time I considered developing my own hardware model that’d also work with LED bulbs, however never got round to it.
This winter I’ve been experimenting with Home Assistant (HA), and it turns out that with a pair low-cost Zigbee parts (bulb and pushbutton from IKEA) it permits for an exquisite replacement/improve sunrise alarm idea. A next-generation Lighten Up! With the whole lot put together the lamp subsequent to my bed will now slowly come up to brightness quarter-hour earlier than the wake-up alarm on my cellphone, reaching ultimate as the normal alarm triggers. If I change the alarm time on my telephone, or shut it off, the light-up alarm in HA will comply with go well with. 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 dwelling or if the alarm is ready for apart from between 3:00 AM and 9:00 AM (instances during which I’d seemingly be in mattress and desirous to wake up) the sunshine won’t activate. This enables me to make use of alarms during the conventional day for different issues with out activating with the light, or whereas traveling with out waking Kristen.
Between this and the gently-rising volume (and vibration) alarm constructed into the Android clock which triggers at the tip of the sunrise cycle it’s a very good, gradual wake-up system. And, EcoLight dimmable all of this happens without any cloud companies or ongoing subscriptions. My HA instance is native