Quite just a few years ago I came across Lighten Up! Coupled with a halogen bulb (that’d begin 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 within the Lighten Up! I couldn’t change the programming, which was a hassle because the clocks in them drifted by a pair minutes per 30 days. With a combination of COVID-19 distant work eliminating the need for an alarm clock and the gadgets dying, within the trash they went. I’ve been attempting to use an alarm to stay on a extra common sleep schedule and while a bunch of different wake-up lights are available, they are dedicated models which might be basically alarm clocks with inbuilt lights. I actually favored the elegance of the Lighten Up! I couldn’t find the rest prefer it. For some time I considered creating my own hardware model that’d also work with LED bulbs, but never obtained round to it.
This winter I’ve been experimenting with Residence Assistant (HA), and it seems that with a couple cheap Zigbee elements (bulb and pushbutton from IKEA) it permits for an exquisite replacement/upgrade sunrise alarm thought. A next-era Lighten Up! With all the things put together 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 ultimate as the normal alarm triggers. If I change the alarm time on my cellphone, or shut it off, the sunshine-up alarm in HA will comply with suit. Additionally, a bodily button on the nightstand turns off the sunshine off whereas replicating a sunrise alarm, or in any other case toggles the sunshine on and off. Even higher, if I’m not home or if the alarm is about for other than between 3:00 AM and 9:00 AM (instances during which I’d doubtless be in bed and eager to get up) the sunshine won’t activate. This permits me to use alarms throughout the traditional day for different issues with out activating with the sunshine, or whereas traveling without waking Kristen.
Between this and EcoLight the gently-increasing volume (and vibration) alarm built into the Android clock which triggers at the top of the sunrise cycle it’s a very good, gradual wake-up system. And, all of this occurs without any cloud providers or ongoing subscriptions. My HA instance is native