Perhaps you know this too: You have finally decided for a new living room furniture and maybe this includes also a glass showcase. If that would be illuminated … (I know, this is old-fashioned (or a matter of taste)).
Something like this is well-known for a long time. Problem with this: with normal incandescent light it is expensive and if you have to switch on the lighting manually, you will not do it anyway.
Today, LED strips are used. A problem remains: manual switch-on is uncomfortable.
I faced this problem a while ago.
The available automatics were expensive and / or crap and did not what I wanted anyway.
I don’t want to have to worry about this lighting again after I first switched it on, if I don’t want to.
The following characteristics are important to me:
- Lighting dimmable
- Lighting is off when it is bright outside
- Lighting is off when it is night and the room is dark
- The thresholds for switching on and off are adjustable
- I can save the settings (optional)
The next contributions show how I solved the challenge.