Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function

Re:Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function by egeozcan on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:46AM (#30683775)

I'm living in Germany and my wife really likes shutting them fully. That really makes it hard for me to wake up. I wish I could automate them. 2 problems: We don't own the flat we are living in and I wouldn't even know where to start hacking these fully closed electronic systems.

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Re:Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function by BrandoElFollito on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:21AM (#30683998)

I live in France and we have the same shutters (metal plates rolling vertically with th esmall holes that can be uncovered).

I automate what I can at home - the CHO (Chief Home Officer - my wife) mostly disapproves because of some weird concerns about reliability (70% of availability for lights is that I call great, but opinions vary).

There is a simple solution for the shutters - you can use a Shelly 2.5 (https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-25-smart-home-automatio...) that you connect in parallel to the shutter. It works wonders if you have a manual switch on the wall and probably with a remote too (I specifically asked for a manual switch on the wall). You can program the device itself to open the shutters at, say, 10 minutes before sunrise or whatever. You can easily remove them when you leave your flat and reuse somewhere else.

The Real Solution For Real Hackers (c) is to use Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/). <flamewar on> Do not settle for inferior systems such as jeedom, domoticz, ... </flame war off please do not hunt me>

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Re:Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function by BrandiATMuhkuh on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:02AM (#30683876)

I think you are looking for something like this. https://www.jalousiescout.de/gurtwickler/elektrische-gurtwic... I believe most tool stores (OBI, Bauhaus) have them. At least here in Austria.

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Re:Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function by mschuster91 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:37AM (#30685072)

> and I wouldn't even know where to start hacking these fully closed electronic systems.

If you have electronic shutters, most of these are a simple 230V based system: one neutral line and two 230V inputs, one for each direction. Hacking them is easy, get two programmable 230V relays (e.g. use a Raspberry Pi relay board) and never ever activate both relays at the same time.

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Re:Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function by mgoetzke on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:39AM (#30695965)

My Apple Watch actually starts brightening up before the alarm goes of to 'simulate' some light. My Pixel phone before also had that, works quite ok

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