ESPHome QuinLED-An-Penta-Mini Motion Controlled Light with Day Schedule

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! :slight_smile:

I think this is exactly what I’m looking for, but I’m still new with HA and so I still have a lot to learn. Will this also expose these lights to HA as a single CCT light (entity, device, whatever it would be)? I’m mostly looking to have the strips connected to the An-Penta-Mini (2x CCT strips) show up in HA as CCT lights, so I can control them through my Control4 system.

This project contains much more than a simple CCT light, so it might be overkill, but yes, the light will be exposed to Home Assistant if you add it.