Smart lamp in the room: "dawn effect" - how to implement?

Question

Arduino

there is a room/bedroom.
available materials
-led lamps, dimmable (IKEA, 2 pcs, up to 1800Lm, 20W)
-minicontroller (the smallest ...)
-mini PC (black-swift) - has wifi on board, but "no" PWM, only software implementation of PWM. .. OS - openwrt
seems to me that to implement this, you need either a controller or a mini pc - in which the time of sunrise and sunset for each day of the year will be recorded ...
in my understanding, the controller is "not very" suitable: -
no exact time (only something that was initialized when uploading the firmware, and in a mini-PC it can have ntp)
- for communications - you will have to fasten some kind of wireless / wired board.
I don't have a lot of programming experience ...
maybe someone implemented this?
and can it be adapted to my toolbox?
Thank you

Answer 1

First, decide what functionality you need.
As I would do: something less agile with radio communication or IR. If there is quartz, then from it, if not, then from the network. the ability to set the time in any case is needed. For RF look at nRF24LE1 and from TI CC24xx CC25 and similar. If you attach infrared control, then any little hard (MSP430, STM8L, STM32L, AVR even).
I would not recommend making WiFi (esp8266) until you decide on the power supply. Rejecting it will greatly reduce consumption.
PS: Why don't you ask on specialized resources?
www.radiokot.ru
kazus.ru
electronix.ru
forum.easyelectronics.ru
caxapa.ru

Answer 2

esp8266 + driver - and it's in the bag. NTP + HTTP for esp with a web muzzle.