A console for house lights.
Motorized faders, solid walnut, machined aluminum. Works with Lutron and Home Assistant.
I built this for myself. Enough people asked for one that it’s becoming a product. A first batch of 20 ships in early 2027, with more batches after that. News soon, to this list first. Leave your email and I’ll write when there is.
Got it. You’ll hear before anyone else, and maybe get the occasional build update.
No spam, no sharing your email, ever.
How it works.
What do I need to run it?
Home Assistant, running on your network. It’s free, open-source software that brings the smart devices in a house, whatever the brand, into one place and runs them locally. If you already have smart lights in the house, it most likely works with them.
It runs on a small server at home. Home Assistant sells its own, the Home Assistant Green, ready to plug in.
Lutron Caséta lights already work, through Home Assistant. I’m working on direct support, so the console can talk to a Caséta bridge without Home Assistant.
Which lights work?
Any light Home Assistant can dim or switch. That’s almost any smart light.
Among them: Philips Hue, Lutron Caséta, IKEA, LIFX, Nanoleaf, TP-Link Kasa and Tapo, WiZ, Govee, Yeelight, and any Zigbee, Z-Wave or Matter light.
Can I control more than four lights? Can I have more than one console?
Yes. A fader controls one light or a group of lights: the pendant over the table, or all six kitchen downlights together.
The four faders are one bank. Turn the knob to switch banks: living room, kitchen, bedroom, wherever. The faders move to the new bank’s levels. Set up as many banks as you need and every light in the house is a turn of the knob away.
Several consoles also work in the same house: one in the living room, one in the bedroom, each with its own banks.
Can it control color, or things other than lights?
Color, yes. The faders switch from brightness to white temperature or to color, for the lights in the bank. A light that can’t do color stays as it is.
Other things: I’m working on volume.
Does it need an account? Does anything go to the cloud?
No account, and nothing leaves your house. The console joins your Wi-Fi and talks to Home Assistant on your network. No Sacrebleu server sits in between.
What if I grab a fader while it’s moving?
The motor stops. Your hand wins.
How big is it?
33 × 19 cm on the table, 9 cm tall. In inches: 13 × 7.5, 3.5 tall.
How do I set it up?
With an app for iPhone or Android. It finds the console and your lights, and you put the lights into banks. Nothing to sign up for. After that, you mostly won’t need the app again.
What’s inside?
Four Alps motorized faders, an optical encoder under the knob, NKK key switches, a 2.4-inch AMOLED screen and a circuit board designed for it. The faceplate, knob and caps are machined from solid aluminum and anodized. The housing is solid walnut.
Built the way things used to be built. Solid wood, machined metal. Parts you can feel.
How much will it cost?
I’ll share the price soon, with this list first.
It won’t be cheap. It’s made by hand in small batches, with the parts and materials above. Low volume and premium parts both add up.
What happens if Sacrebleu goes away?
The console keeps working. It talks to Home Assistant on your network, with no Sacrebleu server in between. If I ever shut the business down, I’ll publish the firmware and the app’s source code, so anyone can keep their console running and change its setup.
Couldn’t I just use my phone to control my lights?
Yes, you could.
Who’s building this?
I’m Alex. Sacrebleu is my shop in Washington, where I make things out of wood, metal and electronics. It is one person, so “we” on this site mostly means me.
Before Sacrebleu, I led a team designing VR and AR interaction models at Meta. Before that, I worked at Google on Firebase and its Realtime Database. Interaction and real-time systems have been my focus for years. A console whose faders move on their own when a light changes somewhere else in the house is where the two meet.
The console comes from a nostalgia for old hi-fi gear: solid materials, and controls you could feel. Somewhere along the way we traded physical controls for our phones. A slider on a flat screen is a poor substitute for a real one.