iOS 18 Brings Adaptive Lighting to Matter Smart Lights

i want to set adaptive brightness. let me say "after 10, make the lights default to 10%"

Nice!
I just learned about this missing feature when I recently bought the Nanoleaf Matter strip. Happy that this downside will soon be gone :)

I’m not a fan of adaptive lighting. Maybe I’m old school and love 2700k or maybe I associate blue light with sterile cubicle work… I don’t know, but I wish HomeKit would stop pushing it and just set it as a toggle.

The problem is the quality of the blue light you are used to.

Cri>98 and high Ra 5500k light is another world of lighting. But nobody cares about light so consumer doesnt push companies for this specs.

Light is the most importante but underrated feature our eyes can sense.

High quality light + adaptative light (mimic the earth rotation) is the wining system by all means but is a tech far from being polished, just because consumer doesnt know what they want. As jobs said

The idea of having interior lights that extend the light is entering through the window without the bad UVA spectrum is a dream. The day some company smart enough could mimic this, would make a non return point for consumer light

This is changing, few years ago it was impossible to know CRI for most companies, IKEA niw puts the CRI in all its bulbs as is proud enough to offer >90 (far better than the >80 CRI most Philips bulbs offer)

Philips Hue Natural light (adaptative) was introduced in 2022 (seriusly no body at philips cared enough to mimic the sun earlier??) but is so bad implemented users need to custom code it. So a big fail feature right of the bos.

In the past also, but CrI bulbs with light sensor was sold reflexting the day time temperature, but who wants a horrible blue light bulb? The good intentions are lost as soon as your eyes are crying for such a bad quality light.

Temperature is not about more blue or more red “filters” , that is how cheap (99% consumer bulbs) get their temperature.

Good LED light Is quite complex at the end

Another inportant thing is the light source. Indirect light is how we see in exteriors at daytime. But hard to find that kind of light in interiors.

Very complex topic that people is used to solve with the cehqper bulb in a stick wired to the wall

I’m not a fan of adaptive lighting. Maybe I’m old school and love 2700k or maybe I associate blue light with sterile cubicle work… I don’t know, but I wish HomeKit would stop pushing it and just set it as a toggle.

Matter support just keeps getting better and better. It's really great in Home Assistant these days, with major updates every month of this year. Matter just added support for updates to device firmware without having to use separate native apps. This is a big step forward. Nowadays, I only buy Matter devices (real support, not like the pretend support that some companies put in their devices that still requires their proprietary hubs) that work with Home Assistant. I just click on the device in settings and tell it to share the device with Homekit, and it creates a notification with a QR code, scan that in HomeKit and voila! It works! HomeKit doesn't support a lot of stuff (like Chmberlin Garage Door Openers) but you can add support through this process and integrations in Home Assistant, and in the case of Chamberline via ESP Home, which is owned by Home Assistant.

How are you getting Chamberlain garage openers into HA? I’m using HomeBridge and MyQ completely cut out API support.

i want to set adaptive brightness. let me say "after 10, make the lights default to 10%"

That should be easy to do. My lights are set up something like that. But I forgot if you can do it using only Apple's Home App.

Apple has a problem with home automation. On the one hand, they want it to do many things, but on the other hand, they want it is be very easy to use so they have seriously dumbed it down. I don't think they will ever resolve this in one app.

Home assistant solves this by splitting the user interface. You can have a very simple"control pannel" for operating the system and then there can be a separate GUI-based configurations and finally for more complex stuff you can edit YAML files. It is not perfect but I think the idea of having multiple user interfaces is the only thing that will work.

A simple example is that I have a closet light and I want it to turn on only if the closet door is open. This is easy, I tie it to a door sensor. But I also want one of the living room lights to go on when the door is open because that light just happens shines into the closet. But this light should not turn off when the closet door shuts if it was turned on by a living room wall switch. The color of the light should be adaptive unless the reason it is in is because of the closet door the it should be set to 'white" and 100% until the closet door is shut and then revert to the last wall switch event.

Just TRY and do the above with Apple's Home app. But there are many cases like this 9and I have not even started talking about motion detection in an open floorplan home or detecting people by tracking their cellphones.


But "adaptive lighting" usually refers to color temperature.

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