Intro
As I’ve mentioned previously, we’re using Phillips Hue and Home Assistant for most of our lighting. The Phillips Hue bridge is connected to Home Assistant, and I’m using the HomeKit Bridge integration to add the lights to Apple’s Home app – the bridge is not connected directly to HomeKit. This has been incredibly stable, however, it comes with a downside: we’re unable to use Apple’s adaptive lighting functionality.
Home Assistant, however, has its own integration for Adaptive Lighting. The documentation can be confusing, however, and it took me over six months to get it working the way I wanted to. Hopefully this post saves someone else some time!