Home Assistant dashboards
Smart-home and smart-building control panels for locks, lights, climate, signs, sensors, power devices, schedules, notifications, and room status.
Home automation • cameras • business systems • Starlight Bridge
Local systems that make homes and small businesses easier to run.
Starlight Lab LLC designs and builds practical technology systems: smart dashboards, security camera networks, business automation, and Starlight Bridge middleware that connects booking, lock, lighting, climate, signage, and reporting tools.
- Home Assistant
- Owner-controlled dashboards
- Cameras & networks
- Clean infrastructure first
- Starlight Bridge
- Business systems working together
Starlight Operations Layer
One dashboard. Safer automations. Clear logs.
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Authorized data enters through a controlled API endpoint.
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Middleware normalizes the event and applies business rules.
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Local systems act only after dry-run, pilot, and approval steps.
What we build
Technology that is documented, supportable, and useful every day.
Security cameras and low-voltage
Camera planning, PoE network layout, recorder support, remote access cleanup, motion-aware alerts, and practical coverage maps.
Business automation
Workflows that connect calendars, booking systems, staff dashboards, signs, thermostats, locks, power monitoring, logs, and reports.
Networks and documentation
Router, Wi-Fi, VLAN, guest network, device inventory, and backup documentation built so the system can be maintained.
Hospitality operations
Motel and small-property workflows for room status, checkout actions, lock-code lifecycle, signage, climate reset, and staff views.
Starlight Bridge middleware
A secure bridge between cloud services and local systems, with authorization, retries, audit logs, and customer-specific rules.
Visual direction
Neon cosmic signage, but cleaned up for a professional service business.
The logo references point toward deep space purple, amber star flares, cyan glow, magenta plasma accents, and bold futuristic lettering. The site now uses that direction while keeping the navigation and service copy clean enough for real customers.
Open the draft brand board
Use the AI logo images as reference. Redraw the final mark as SVG before print signage.
Expanded site map
Pages built for the first public version.
Starlight Bridge
Connect Cloudbeds-style booking data to local Home Assistant automations.
Starlight Bridge keeps cloud systems, private credentials, and local devices in the right places. Cloud services send authorized events to a public HTTPS endpoint. Middleware validates and normalizes the data. Home Assistant receives only the local event it needs to update dashboards or trigger approved automations.
- Cloudbeds or another platform stays the system of record.
- Home Assistant stays local and owner-controlled.
- API secrets and guest-sensitive data stay out of dashboards and GitHub.
- Live changes start in dry-run mode, then one pilot device, then rollout.
Cloud system
Bookings, room status, webhooks
Starlight Bridge
Authorize, normalize, map, log
Local control
Locks, climate, signage, dashboards
How projects stay safe
Start with visibility, prove it safely, then automate.
Map the system
Inventory devices, accounts, networks, dashboards, APIs, and current pain points.
Separate access
Use API authorization and dedicated service accounts instead of broad personal passwords.
Dry-run first
Show exactly what would happen before a lock, thermostat, sign, or camera system changes.
Pilot one device
Test a non-critical device or room before expanding automation across the property.
Built for owner control
Automation should reduce app-juggling, not create another black box.
Starlight Lab focuses on systems the owner can understand: clean diagrams, clear logs, manual overrides, backups, and dashboards that staff can actually use.
No secret sprawl
Credentials stay in private runtime environments, not public repos or dashboard files.
Documented networks
Device inventory, VLAN intent, IP notes, and recovery paths are part of the job.
Manual override
Owners keep access through Home Assistant and original vendor apps where appropriate.
Start a project
Tell us what you want connected, controlled, or cleaned up.
Good first projects include camera planning, Home Assistant dashboards, guest Wi-Fi cleanup, device inventory, small-business automations, and booking-system-to-local-system middleware.
Call or text
Start with a quick description of the system, the building, and what you want automated or cleaned up.