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shipped2021·Home Automation

Scene Select

One controller, five lighting modes — the layer that made every other light in the flat worth automating.

  • ESP8266
  • Home Assistant
  • Scene control
  • Five modes — movie, ambient, daytime, night light and work
  • Each mode sets several fixtures at once rather than toggling one

Individually controllable lights are only useful once something coordinates them. Scene Select is that layer: five modes, each setting a group of fixtures to a defined state.

Mode What it sets
Movie Everything dimmed down
Ambient Indirect lighting plus the TV backlight
Daytime Desk beam light to 100%
Night light Beam light at low level, bed lamp on
Work Desk lamp and desk beam light both at 100%

The list looks trivial written out, which is the point — the value is that “movie” is one action instead of five, and the definition of what movie means lives in one place that can be changed later.