homegui VS adaptive-lighting

FWIW, I had similar experiences twice:

First with IKEA when they changed the lights on-power-up behavior on upgrade. This resulted in a hub becoming a 25 euro cc2531 stick on raspberry pi + Zigbee2mqtt and HomeBridge for integration with HomeKit.

And the past February Apple decided my Apple TV 3 was not good enough for being a home hub, and botched the entire home in the process, while I was away.

So now the whole HomeKit nonsense is out and instead there is a lightweight Rust app with a simple text file config doing both the orchestration and providing the light html UI.

https://github.com/ayourtch/homegui - in case anybody finds it useful.

As a bonus the users in the household praise the new system being much more responsive..

I am missing “turn all the lights off when last person leaves”, and full editing the colors via GUI, but not enough to bother to implement it :-)

I started with a similar path a few years ago - IKEA smart home gear. The controller went away fairly quickly. I stayed for a long time on raspberry pi + Zigbee stick from DeConz + Apple home integration using homebridge.io.

Deconz felt a bit bloated/buggy, so I switched to using a cheap USB stick from aliexpress, and using zigbee2mqtt, which turned out to be a pretty good combination.

Unfortunately Apple decided (while I was on a business trip) that Apple TV 3 was no longer good enough as a home hub, so all of my soft switches stopped working...

As a result in a couple of days I wrote a quick MVP replacement in Rust, which has been working very nice for me, and the "user" (significant other) feedback was that it is now much more reliable and responsive.

Putting it here in case anyone finds it useful.

https://github.com/ayourtch/homegui

I use Home Assistant for doing most of what you're asking for. This integration works great for adjusting light level and temperature: https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting.

My home has an ERV and I use a couple Shelly relays (one for power and the other to boost airflow) integrated into HA to modulate the amount of fresh air I bring in, currently based on indoor/outdoor temperature and humidity. I don't have an air quality sensor, but if I had one I could easily integrate that into my automations.

Philips Hue lub Ikea Tradfri spięte z home-assistant.io, do którego zainstalowany jest dodatek https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

Are you using any sort of home automation system (Google, Alexa, Siri, other) or just using the Kasa app? I use Home Assistant along with the Adaptive Lighting integration with my bulbs and LED strips, which works on circadian rhythm and does exactly what you're wanting to do.

My home has never felt this "smart" before. Every time my lights turns on I find the color and brightness to be perfect.

[1]: https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

If you're starting from scratch with a new build, I would recommend Home Assistant with the Adaptive Lighting Custom Component.

Personally, I use this Integration within my home automation hub. It took all of 5-10min to set up, didn't require any additional hardware, works with all of my existing bulbs and strips with CT and/or brightness control, updates my lights every 90s, and slowly transitions to the next setting over a 45s period. Any time I make manual adjustments to any light, it holds that setting until I turn the light off.

Probably not the solution you're looking for, but I use Adaptive Lighting with Home Assistant. Doing it at the hub level (instead of the bulb or app level) means you aren't restricted to a specific brand/protocol. As long as the light has dimming and CT controls, it just works. (I use it with several different LED strips and several different smart bulbs.)

I think the best method to do this is with this home assistant integration: https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

Any CCT capable light will be able to achieve this, but the level of automation will depend on the app/hub you pair them with. Inovelli, Ikea, and Philips have some good options, but will all require an appropriate Zwave/Zigbee hub. Personally, I run Home Assistant in conjunction with the Adaptive Lighting Add-On to handle the CT automations.

HACS Adaptive lighting