---
title: "FLARE"
description: "FLARE is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 64 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated October 25, 2026."
canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/danrspencer-flare"
url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/danrspencer-flare.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-27"
version: "1.4"
---

# FLARE

> FLARE is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 64 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated October 25, 2026.

FLARE is an adaptive lighting integration that follows four named phases of the day: morning, day, evening and night. Phases work from a schedule rather than the sun's position, and only the evening phase follows sunset, within limits that can be set. Rooms light up when people enter and go dark or dim to a nightlight after they leave, and a light changed by hand is left alone until the room next goes dark. When a room is handed to a scene, FLARE fills in whatever the scene does not cover. Each room can also get its own light for voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google. Options cover update interval, the gap between zones, and minimum brightness and colour temperature changes, and it runs locally and is set up in the UI.

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[Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/hacs_repository/?owner=danrspencer&repository=flare&category=integration)

On Home Assistant 2026.11 or newer? [Open it in the Marketplace](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/marketplace_repository/?owner=danrspencer&repository=flare&category=integration)

## Supports

- **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
- **From the Marketplace**: Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS.
- **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months.

## Setting it up

Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services.

### Set up FLARE

- **Schedules**

### Name your schedules

- **Schedule**

### Set up areas

- **What to set up in each area**

### After setup

- **Two-step bulb models**
- **Update interval**: How often each zone ticks, in minutes.
- **Gap between zones**: Seconds between one zone's tick and the next. Shrinks automatically if the zones wouldn't otherwise fit in the interval.
- **Minimum brightness change**: A light within this percentage of its target brightness is left alone.
- **Minimum colour temperature change**: A light within this many mireds of its target colour temperature is left alone.

Texts from the code of [danrspencer/flare](https://github.com/danrspencer/flare).

## Troubleshooting

- **Repair notices**: Notices it can show in Settings, Repairs:
  FLARE blueprint is out of date, FLARE's blueprint isn't installed, Reload to add FLARE's dashboard

## From the README

> Flexible Lighting Automation & Reconciliation Engine.
>
> Lighting for Home Assistant that follows the shape of your day. By default it's bright and cool to help you wake up, warms through the afternoon, dims as evening comes, and sits low and warm once the house is asleep — and every one of those is yours to change.

From the README of [danrspencer/flare](https://github.com/danrspencer/flare#readme), [MIT License](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html). Shortened.

## At a glance

- Kind: Marketplace integration
- Category: [Lighting](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/lighting.md)
- Number: 64 installs sharing analytics; 27 GitHub stars
- Connection: Works locally
- Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months
- Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older)
- Latest version: v1.1.1, last updated October 25, 2026
- Domain: `flare`
- Source: <https://github.com/danrspencer/flare>
- Issues: <https://github.com/danrspencer/flare/issues>
- Screenshot: https://vulpo.app/integrations-img/ddb2d75babe025d8.webp (from danrspencer/flare's README)

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Last updated 2026-10-27. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/danrspencer-flare

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