How to schedule a custom sleep routine for your Roku Smart Home lights
When you want your own personal sunrise or sunset, schedule a custom sleep routine that slowly brightens your Roku® Smart Home lights in the morning and gradually dims them at night. This article provides more details about the feature and teaches you how to use sleep routines.
What is a sleep routine?
A sleep routine automatically brightens or darkens your lights incrementally based on your preferences. Select a wake up or bedtime routine, and choose the duration, starting time, and the days you want it to repeat.
- Wake up: Simulates a sunrise to help you wake up easier.
- Bedtime: Mimics a sunset to get you to sleep faster.
Which smart home devices support sleep routines?
Sleep routines are supported on all Roku Smart Home lights. You can create a custom routine for each of your smart lights individually or add them to a group to brighten and dim all the lights in the room at once. A lighting group can consist of any number of the lights listed below.
For more help, learn how you can set up a lighting device group. Be aware that if you decide to delete a lighting group, any sleep routines you created will also be deleted, and you will need to recreate them on the individual lights.
How to create a sleep routine
To create a sleep routine, launch the Roku Smart Home mobile app and complete the appropriate steps for each light or lighting group.
- Tap Home
from the navigation bar - Select an individual light or lighting group
- Tap Settings
- Tap Sleep routines
- Create a morning and/or nighttime routine
Morning routine
- Toggle Wake up to on
- Choose your preferences
- Duration: How long you want it to take to reach the ending brightness. You can choose between 20 and 60 minutes.
- Start time: The time when your lights begin to brighten. You may want to time it to match your alarm clock.
- Repeats on: The days when the routine is active. To sleep in on the weekend, only select Monday through Friday.
- Ending brightness: How bright your lights are at the end of the duration. Tap and drag left or right to set the ending brightness.
- Ending color temperature: How warm or cool the temperature of the bulb is at the end of the duration. Tap and drag left or right to set the ending color temperature.
Nighttime routine
- Toggle Bedtime to on
- Set your preferences
- Duration: How long it takes your lights to dim to 0% brightness and turn off. If you fall asleep quickly, select 20 min.
- Start time: The time when your lights start to dim.
- Repeats on: The days when your routine is active.
Last updated at 2/25/2026 10:03:34 PM
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