ULTIMATE internal circadian lights integration in Home Assistant

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thanks Andrej. I love the adaptive lighting integration from HACS as you know. A lot of lights in my house work using adaptive lighting. Will give this a try one day too.

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you Ed! Yes, I've seen that one. Adaptive lighting is great and offers a lot of things, but Flux is "good enough" and requires almost no setup. But you do get what you pay for :)

[@iddiek]

I consider Flux a must-have component in my ha setup, at least about temperature of lights. For setting brightness instead I really recommend lux sensors (in esphome or in aqara PIR devices for example) in each room and set in % according to natural light. Nice video!!

[@BeardedTinker]

Thanks for the tip about lux sensor. I actually have a lot of old data that will be used to set it up. :)

[@iainhay2823]

Winter will be here soon, you’re not wrong, put the heating on tonight! Excellent video, been thinking about this for a while, will have to give it a go now.

[@BeardedTinker]

My first attempt few years back witch HACS circadian light was a fail - this time it works. But I think I was just complicating at the time. :) And as for winter - started heating 2 days ago - not good... Can't remember when I started heating so fast.

[@iainhay2823]

@@BeardedTinker with energy prices it’s certainly not good

[@BeardedTinker]

Still have to see if my new smart gas boiler will help with these costs 😱

[@AllenRobberson]

thanks for the great video. You always do such a good job with these videos.

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you like it Allen - thank you!!!

[@Pop-upparadijs]

Can you set the start time and the end time to sunset and sunrise? Or to another helper?

[@EsotericArctos]

I remember using Flux when it was a stand alone custom component. At the time I first looked at it I ended up using automations do some colour temperature and brightness changes because at the time circadian lighting and flux were not quite up to the task. I might have to revisit it again now. Is Flux still YAML only, or is it also available in the GUI? Also, is there a way, say via an automation, to turn off Flux for a light if a manual light switch is used? Thanks for another great video.

[@BeardedTinker]

I first played with circadian light custom component few years back but it didn't pass with my family :) Flux is still YAML only.And as for automation, since it creates switch, you can just toggle it off with automation and that will stop the cycle.

[@Tntdruid]

Funny thumbnail 😄

[@BeardedTinker]

:D I can't make click-bait thumbnail, so just hoping people will like this one :)

[@bteixeira2013]

Great video. Don't you recommend a few light?

[@BeardedTinker]

I'm using IKEA lights and they have been working great. Both single light colour but also warm/cold LED light bulbs.