Simulate sunrise in the morning with LIFX

[Hal3]

I want to simulate sunrise in the morning with an LIFX bulb varying color and brightness - start with dim deep orange going to brighter yellow going to bright daylight over about 30 minutes. I couldn't find anything like that searching the forum. Any suggestions?

[jshimota]

oddly - I've been toying for days now with just such a thing. take a look at :

[RELEASE] Day Lights - an iteration of Circadian Daylight

After installing @adamkempenich's Circadian Daylight I was interested in making a couple of tweaks and was drawn into the world of groovy development. While the underlying code has been re-worked, the spirt of the app along with the look and feel of the setup remains very similar. A few brave people in the forums have tried out the results and it seems that that app is stable enough for a general release. The main changes to the original are: At sunset the lights will remain at the minimum br…

@OldChicagoPete recently added a virtual switch to enable disable, so you could set your ramp up (I offset my sunrise ~29 mins for twilight) . It might be possible to use this app to accomplish your goal, using the virtual switch to toggle it on and off with a rule(s) at the times you want.

[JB10]

You could try using a rule similar to [How to] Wake up light (RuleMachine only, no scenes ect). Day Lights might work but it’s not really designed for that.

Granted with LIFX bulbs, their color temperature gets quite low. You could just have a rule that fades the color temperature from 1500 or so up to 2700 or so. That would well for you.