Local first
Configuration, control, schedules and automation all work on your LAN. The internet going down is a news story, not a lighting outage. Cloud is convenience — never a requirement.
Coming soon · Permanent architectural lighting
Lighting that
knows your house.
Ember composes every scene onto your actual architecture — peaks get accents, corners stay pinned, the front door gets emphasis. It runs on your local network, with or without the internet. It's the difference between “they have lights” and “who did their lighting?”
No account required. No cloud dependency. Your lighting stays local.
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Motion
Principle 06 — Bespoke by default
The house understands itself.
Most systems smear an effect along a strip and call it a scene. Ember knows the roofline from the gables, the corners from the peaks, the entry from the garage — so a scene is composed onto the architecture, not painted over it.
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It learns the geometry once
Map the roofline, gables, corners and columns a single time. Every scene from then on — stock preset, shared design, or a sentence you type — lands on the architecture you actually have.
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Seconds from words to designed
“Make it feel like Halloween.” The moment to win is measured in seconds, and Ember spends them composing — not asking you to pick pixel ranges.
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A small library that always lands
A modest set of looks that render beautifully on every house beats a giant catalog that renders generically on all of them.
The app
Four taps to a look you'd pay a designer for.
No pixel indexes. No channel maps. Ember asks the question the way people actually think about house lighting, then does the design work.
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What's the occasion?
Pick a starting point. You can change everything after.
Everyday warmSoft whites for any night
A holidayChristmas, Halloween, the Fourth…
Game nightBold colors for the big game
A celebrationBirthdays, parties, big news
These colors?
Warm whites with a soft amber lift.
Soft amberCandlelight
Cool whiteSunset
Deep ember
Warmer · Cooler · More contrast
Nudge it in plain words — no color wheel required.
How should it move?
Everything below previews live on the house.
StillSteady, no movement
Slow breatheGently rises and falls
ChaseColors travel along the roofline
TwinkleRandom sparkle across the house
Where should it go?
Ember already knows the parts of your house.
Main roofline
Gable peaks
Front entry
Garage
Columns
Peaks get the accent color
Turn a part off and the design recomposes — it doesn't just go dark.
Name it and it's yours.
Saved to your house, on your network.
Everyday Warm
Ready
Add it to a schedule, share it, or edit any part of it later.
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- Ask the human question. Occasion first — the way people actually describe what they want. Each card seeds a complete design, identical to typing the phrase to the assistant.
- Show, don't configure. A shortlist of palettes that suit the occasion, nudgeable in plain words. The house previews every change as you make it.
- Motion is a choice, not a menu. Four options that read like English, each one previewing on the real roofline before you commit.
- Parts, not pixels. Roofline, peaks, entry, garage, columns. Toggle one off and the scene recomposes around what's left.
- Yours, and it stays yours. Saved locally to your house. Schedule it, share it, or take it apart — nothing leaves your network.
Recreated from the shipping Ember app. Advances automatically — or tap the dots.
What we refuse to compromise
Simple for consumers.
Open for developers.
Every feature, every hardware decision, every screen gets measured against these. If a proposal conflicts, we redesign the proposal.
Privacy is the default
Collect as little as possible. Accounts only where they earn their place. Telemetry transparent and optional. You should always know what leaves your home — and mostly, nothing does.
Open by design
REST, WebSockets, MQTT, Home Assistant discovery, a local web interface, documented OTA. Advanced users should never have to fight the platform — or reverse engineer it.
No vendor lock-in
Your controller. Your lights. Your home. Your choice. You should never lose access to hardware because a company changed direction or switched off a server.
Progressive disclosure
A first-timer sees only what finishes setup. Complexity appears when it starts paying for itself. Consumers never feel overwhelmed; developers never feel constrained.
Beautiful by default
Packaging, enclosures, indicators, onboarding, firmware updates, docs. Beauty isn't decoration — it removes friction and builds confidence. Confusing usually means unfinished.
Coming soon
Tell us which door you're coming through.
We're opening up to homeowners, installers and manufacturers on different tracks. Say which one you are and we'll only send you the things that matter to you.
Be there when the lights go on.
Ember is coming. Leave your email and we'll tell you the moment it's ready — nothing else, ever.