Comment by floam
6 days ago
I bought a Venus fly trap about 10 years ago, and recall wanting to stick some RGB LEDs on an “Arduino or something” to get them to turn on and off in sync with the sun. I was hung up on the idea that this is in my windowsill, so the data on sunrise and sunset I could get from a photoresistor. It would also monitor moisture.
This is so cool!
This setup would take like 10 minutes in Home Assistant.
OP proceeds to spend 6 months worth of evenings and weekends learning basic electronics, Arduino, and Home Assistant installation and admin - to get to the stage where they can do this in 10 minutes.
lol you're not wrong but it's more like 2-3 hours of setup in 2025. It's usually just a plugin in HA or HACS nowadays.
Nobody is using arduino's with HA anymore. You can order hardware that works out of the box for nearly everything. A wifi enabled light is dead simple.
All OP would have to do is order an RGB light that works with HA, plug it in, add it and then setup an automation. HA has made all this doable through the UI now, so no YAML unless you really want to. I have like 15 of these for my garden setup.