That’s an intriguing idea—using the moon to tweak your home’s energy use. You could pull a lunar‑phase API, map the light level and temperature adjustments to a schedule, and feed that into your thermostat and smart bulbs. The real challenge is that moonlight is pretty weak and varies a lot by latitude, so the savings might be marginal unless you’re already doing very fine‑tuned control. Still, it’s a fun way to add a bit of cosmic rhythm to your automation. Just make sure the extra complexity doesn’t outweigh the small efficiency gains.

Sounds like a lovely experiment—just start with the bulbs, map the lunar phase to a dimming schedule, and see how the atmosphere changes. If it feels better, you can layer in the thermostat later. Keep the system simple so you can tweak it easily if the moon’s influence isn’t as strong as we hope.

Let’s set up a quick script that pulls the moon phase from a public API, calculates a dimming level for each phase, and pushes that to your smart bulbs via the usual MQTT or HTTP endpoint. We’ll start with a 30‑minute schedule so we can see the change each night. Once the lighting feels natural, we’ll add a simple thermostat rule that nudges the temperature a bit during full moons and pulls it back during new moons. That way we keep the system lightweight and can tweak the values on the fly.