Work and research

Construction work, repos, and prototypes turned into service lines.

This page translates the Starlight Lab GitHub/project inventory into public-safe capabilities. Private customer records, API secrets, guest data, lock codes, and billing details stay out of the website.

Project inventory

The Starlight Lab workbench spans construction, infrastructure, automation, APIs, and specialty devices.

The active work set includes construction/interior service packaging, the public site and Starlight Bridge scaffold, hospitality lock middleware, Home Assistant hospitality planning, WLED hospitality lighting, field-service app concepts, specialty Raspberry Pi controllers, and separate private customer records for property work.

Public-site rule

Use the lessons and patterns. Do not publish customer credentials, private account facts, guest data, lock codes, raw network exports, or property-specific secrets.

Read the operating approach

Build lanes

What the GitHub/project research supports.

Private product

Starlight Lab LLC

Public website, Cloudflare Pages deployment, Starlight Bridge API scaffold, hosting plan, domain plan, and reusable product notes.

Field service

Construction and custom interiors

Drywall, paint, repair, epoxy, custom finish work, photo sets, punch lists, and automation-ready room planning.

Field electrical

Lighting and control corrections

Lighting circuits, fixture additions, switching and motion-control logic, constant-power corrections, WLED integration, troubleshooting, testing, and owner-ready documentation.

Private middleware

Schlage Hospitality Middleware

Reservation-based lock automation, guest code lifecycle, status monitoring, staff access, Home Assistant integration, and audit trails.

Public automation

Home Assistant Hospitality

Occupancy dashboards, room state, lock integration, thermostat control, housekeeping, maintenance alerts, and energy management.

Public lighting

WLED Hospitality

Exterior lighting, occupancy indicators, event lighting, holiday automation, dashboard integration, and Home Assistant control.

Private field record

Shamrock-style pilot work

Sanitized lessons from a small-property automation pilot: locks, Cloudbeds-style PMS routing, Home Assistant, cameras, networks, TVs, signage, and support docs.

Private planning record

Route 66 property planning

Network/coax surveys, UniFi planning, guest Wi-Fi, TV/IoT segmentation, equipment lists, field drawings, and staged infrastructure rollout.

Public app lane

TRACKTOR

Contractor time tracking, jobs, expenses, notes, receipts, and job profitability as a future field-service management lane.

Private hardware lane

Phonebooth controller

Raspberry Pi GPIO/audio control, keypad routing, hardware-friendly dry-run behavior, and small dedicated appliance patterns.

Legacy experiments

Pi and lighting roots

Older Raspberry Pi and blinking-light experiments still map into the current practical automation identity: devices, controls, lighting, and field iteration.

Capability map

The website now has a place for every major work stream.

1

Build

Electrical and lighting corrections, drywall, paint, epoxy, custom interior upgrades, repair punch lists, and photo-ready finish work.

2

Integrate

Home Assistant, WLED, locks, thermostats, cameras, PMS data, dashboards, and business software.

3

Automate

Safe rules for guest access, room state, climate reset, alerts, reporting, lighting scenes, and staff workflows.

4

Productize

Turn repeatable customer work into checklists, code, docs, deployments, and supportable service packages.

What this means for customers

Starlight Lab can trace a lighting problem and build the API callback.

That combination is the differentiator. A project can start with a wrongly switched light, an unfinished room, messy Wi-Fi, or cameras and grow into dashboards, lock workflows, staff tools, reports, and middleware without pretending each system is unrelated.

Start here

Bring the project type, building photos, equipment list, app names, and the workflow you want to stop doing manually.

Start a project