Amble-home brings Amaran studio lights into Home Assistant
A studio owner used Claude to implement ESPHome firmware that connects existing Amaran Bluetooth-mesh lights to Home Assistant, with eight fixture models tested.
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The full story
The maker wanted nine Amaran studio lights to work through Home Assistant scenes and controls alongside the rest of the house. Amble-home puts ESPHome firmware on an ESP32-S3 or C6 board and joins the existing Bluetooth mesh as another node.
Claude writes and maintains the code while the maker owns the design, hardware and release decisions, with Codex reviewing sensitive changes. The post reports eight tested fixture models and five tested boards. Another 72 fixtures are expected to work from capability data, rather than tested.
The Amaran app still handles pairing and provisioning. Effects, presets, gels and pixel control remain there too; Amble-home exposes ordinary lighting controls and reads back state every 15 seconds.
Device and compatibility
- ESP32-S3 or ESP32-C6 with 8 MB flash and native USB
Classic ESP32, S2 and C3 are unsupported. Eight fixture models and five boards reported tested.
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What you need
- Existing provisioned Amaran Bluetooth mesh; the Amaran app remains responsible for fixture setup. Source ↗
What Claude did
- ESPHome firmware implementation and maintenance under the maker’s directionClaude Source ↗
How it was done
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.