Lux Sensors for Home Assistant: The Feedback Loop Nobody Warns You About
Measuring light sounds like the easiest job in home automation, and it turns out to involve device selection, placement, calibration, and one feedback loop that bites everyone who tries it. This episode walks the entire chain: the Aqara Light Sensor T1 and its supply problems, the Xiaomi Mijia puck, the cheap Tuya sensors that cap at 1,000 lux, and the fact that most lux readings in Home Assistant come bundled into motion sensors rather than dedicated devices. Matter standardized the Illuminance Measurement cluster back in 1.0, but as of the August survey only 27 devices implement it, and…
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