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BRUH Automation

BRight

Point it at a folder of music and a speaker. It analyses each track once, writes a show, and runs it in sync with the room.
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What it is

A Home Assistant add-on that turns your lights into a lighting rig for music. It analyses each track once — beats, sections, drops, chords, the melody, which drum hit each accent was — and compiles a show: a timeline of packets sent straight to your LIFX bulbs over the LAN, plus switches for anything that only knows on and off.

Then it plays the track through a Home Assistant media player and runs the show against it, calibrated to how long your speaker actually takes to start.

Analysed once, played many times

A track’s analysis and its compiled show are files. Play it again and nothing is recomputed.

Bulb-side effects

A pulse is one packet that tells the bulb to run a waveform for eight beats — not hundreds of packets a second. The bulb keeps the envelope; the network stays quiet.

Editable, not a black box

Every show is a JSON script of effects you can open, edit and recompile. The automatic director writes the same file format you would.

It tells you when it can't

A speaker that never started, a media path Home Assistant will not serve, a folder outside /media — each is a named step in one check, not a silent dark room.

What you need

  • LIFX bulbs on the same LAN — BRight talks to them directly over UDP, not through the cloud.
  • A media player Home Assistant can play_media on.
  • Music files under /media, which is not an arbitrary confinement: a show plays its track by handing the player a media-source URI, and Home Assistant only serves those for files under the media folder. A folder outside it analyses perfectly and never plays a note.
  • Optionally, a Claude login — the director writes better shows than the built-in algorithmic choreographer, and falls back to it automatically.

The order things want to happen in

  1. Light Map — tell BRight where the lights are and what each one is for.
  2. Library — point it at your music and let it analyse.
  3. Calibrate — measure how long your speaker takes to start playing.
  4. Shows — compile a show for a track, and watch it in the editor.
  5. Party — tick the tracks, press Play.

Steps 1 and 3 are the ones people skip and then wonder why the lights are early.