Wake up light

I find that I struggle to wake up winter mornings, so I thought I'd build myself a sunrise light strip for my bed headboard. I had already made a LED strip to sit under my TV, so I thought I'd build something similar. Although this time I decided to use slightly different components that were more targeted to my use case, I made this using a Plasma 2350 W (Powered by RP2350A and has screw terminals for attaching LED strip) and a LED strip. It's mounted on a wooden batten on the wall behind the headboard.

I wanted to integrate this into my existing Home Assistant (HA) setup to allow me to use this like any other light as well as adding the sunrise capabilities. For the communication between HA and the microcontroller, I wrote micropython code to connect to a MQTT server that I had installed on HA. For the sunrise part I created a sunrise script and automation blueprint which would change the colour and brightness of the LED strip over the configured duration. The automation would be triggered on configured alarms.

Alarm configuration

Automation configuration