Quite just a few years ago I got here across Lighten Up! Coupled with a halogen bulb (that’d start out very yellow at lowest brightness) I had a wonderful 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 per 30 days. With a combination of COVID-19 distant work eliminating the necessity for an alarm clock and the gadgets dying, within the trash they went. I’ve been trying to use an alarm to remain on a more common sleep schedule and whereas a bunch of different wake-up lights are available, they are devoted units that are mainly alarm clocks with in-built lights. I actually preferred the elegance of the Lighten Up! I couldn’t discover anything else prefer it. For some time I considered creating my own hardware version that’d additionally work with LED EcoLight smart bulbs, but never received around to it.
This winter I’ve been experimenting with Dwelling Assistant (HA), and it seems that with a couple cheap Zigbee components (bulb and pushbutton from IKEA) it permits for an exquisite replacement/upgrade sunrise alarm thought. A subsequent-era Lighten Up! With every part put collectively the lamp subsequent to my mattress will now slowly come up to brightness 15 minutes before the wake-up alarm on my telephone, reaching last as the normal alarm triggers. If I change the alarm time on my phone, EcoLight smart bulbs or shut it off, the light-up alarm in HA will comply with go well with. Moreover, a physical button on the nightstand EcoLight energy turns off the light off whereas replicating a sunrise alarm, or in any other case toggles the light on and off. Even higher, if I’m not house or if the alarm is ready for apart from between 3:00 AM and 9:00 AM (instances during which I’d probably be in mattress and desirous to wake up) the light won’t activate. This allows me to use alarms during the conventional day for different issues without activating with the sunshine, or while touring with out waking Kristen.
Between this and the gently-growing quantity (and vibration) alarm built into the Android clock which triggers at the end of the sunrise cycle it’s a very nice, gradual wake-up system. And, all of this occurs with none cloud providers or ongoing subscriptions. My HA instance is native