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Use cases that I personally like:

* Turn existing lights into timed night lights that turn on at a configurable brightness when I pass certain motions sensors and then turn off after a timeout (cool/useful when I'm wandering around house at night)

* Similar: Turn existing light fixtures into motion activated on switches (useful for dark staircase)

* Turn lights on in morning and evening when I'm traveling to make it look like the place is occupied if I'm traveling

* Party mode: cool colors shifting in cool ways in the rare event there's a party

* Gradually go from bright white light to softer light as the day goes on in the office, and then stay soft at night to help with sleep

* Turn on in a sequence when people are detected close by outside in the middle of the night to try to scare them off

* Turn a certain color to indicate something being off, like a server offline, water detected, etc.




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