F.lux, but for Your House

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  • lifx

  • I've been doing this for years with Lifx bulbs: https://github.com/adamjacobmuller/lifx/

    Works really well. Lifx bulbs have excellent CRI (proper color temperature adjustments, not just fumbling with RGB) the only downside being they are not cheap. Worth it IMO though.

  • adaptive-lighting

    Adaptive Lighting custom component for Home Assistant

  • I would like to recommend Adaptive Lighting in favor of Circadian Lighting. It has the added benefit of being able to detect if someone manually adjusts the brightness or color, and then stops the automatic adjustment for that light.

    https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • redshift

    Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.

  • I wish something like this existed for TVs. Since I got my eyesight procedure 10+ years ago, I soon noticed I was quite sensitive to lights that didn't affect me at all (maybe my vision was too bad to even notice, don't know). That extreme sensitivity faded off in the first six months, but I still get annoyed by some lights and the first thing I do with a new PC/Phone is setting up Redshift[1] or Twilight[2], and although I'm not a great TV consumer, the times I do watch it, I wonder if there's a market for this kind of features.

    1: https://github.com/jonls/redshift

    2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...

  • homebridge-wiz-lan

    Control Wiz lights over LAN

  • Adaptive Lighting also works with the cheaper Philips Wiz bulbs, provided you use HomeBridge. ( I'm using this plugin for Wiz support: https://github.com/kpsuperplane/homebridge-wiz-lan#readme )

    Wiz bulbs will also be getting Matter support within the next year, so we'll be able to add them to HomeKit "natively".

  • rtlamr

    An rtl-sdr receiver for Itron ERT compatible smart meters operating in the 900MHz ISM band.

  • Not OP, but in my jurisdiction the smart power meters broadcast consumption as SCM at 900MHz. rtlamr

    https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr

    does a good job of receiving and decoding those broadcasts using a cheap SDR. My local water utility also broadcasts consumption as SCM+, also 900MHz. I'm able to grab both with the single SDR.

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