Hey there!
I want to share a little project that I have created over the past weeks, which implements a QuinLED-An-Penta-Mini based light controller built using ESPHome with presence detection and a sunrise/sunset and night schedule that works independently from Home Assistant.
This project was born because a family member wanted to install lighting on a staircase, and the Home Assistant nerd in me wanted to make it smart, even if they do not have a Home Assistant instance running anywhere. It can be fully configured through the integrated web portal provided by ESPHome and can run fully autonomously after that (except fetching the time from somewhere on the network).
The project is pretty modular and supports both wifi and ethernet (on the QuinLED-An-Penta-Plus), different time sources, an (optional) IR remote, as well as using an RGBW LED strip and emulate it as a CCT strip.
Feel free to give it a look if you need inspiration for a similar project, and let me know if there is anything to improve about it!