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AdaptiveLighting

AdaptiveLighting

Lights that come on when you walk in — at the right brightness for the time of day, and only when it's actually dark.
How to use itView on GitHub

Motion, gated by daylight

A room lights when someone walks in — but only if it is dark, judged by its own light-level sensors or the sun’s height. A room with no sensor counts as dark; following a house-wide outdoor sensor is something a room opts into.

It dims before it gives up

Lights fade as a warning before switching off, so they never drop on someone sitting still. Any movement brings them straight back.

It backs off when you intervene

Touch a switch or a dimmer and the automation leaves your setting alone for a while. Every change is worked out as the engine’s or a person’s.

House modes

Normal, Sleep, Away and Guest — each able to run a Home Assistant scene, switch on a schedule or a quiet house, and switch back when someone moves.

Mornings that wait for you

A period can be told to start on movement rather than on the clock. The house stays at night levels until somebody actually gets up, and then the morning arrives whole.

A scene, where a level will not do

A room can run one of your scenes instead of switching on, and another instead of switching off — so it settles into something soft when it empties rather than going dark. Each replaces one moment and nothing else; every rule that could refuse to light the room still refuses.

Install

Section titled “Install”
Terminal window
dotnet add package AdaptiveLighting
dotnet add package AdaptiveLighting.Web   # optional: the board, room pages and settings

Start it once and it finds every room with a light and a motion sensor by itself — and writes them all switched off. No light changes until you open the UI and choose which rooms to hand over.

How to use itThe first ten minutes, the four screens, and why a light didn't come on.
How it worksWhat happens when you walk into a room, and what decides it.
Settings referenceEvery setting, in the words the UI uses.
Example configurationWhat the configuration file looks like, annotated.

Part of ZeroZero Software — small tools, zero bloat.