Hedley Stirrat

software engineer | aotearoa new zealand

Dim Philips Hue lights at sunset with Home Assistant

19 April, 2025
Home Assistant

This post describes how to set up a couple of Home Assistant automations to dim Philips Hue lights at sunset.

Making a dumb smart light switch with a Raspberry Pi Pico

How I made a dumb smart switch with a Raspberry Pi Pico to control a Philips Hue smart light.

Flickering-flame LED effect using MicroPython on a Raspberry Pi Pico

This post describes how to wire up an electrical circuit and write a simple MicroPython script to deploy onto a Raspberry Pi Pico to create a flickering-flame LED effect.