I bought Eve brand motion/occupancy/illuminance sensors for high traffic areas. I run them in Matter mode so everything is local and vendor neutral. I use an

I bought Eve brand motion/occupancy/illuminance sensors for high traffic areas. I run them in Matter mode so everything is local and vendor neutral. I use an Apple TV as a controller and I use HomeKit automation to create rules to turn lights on and off. By using occupancy and time of day conditions I can have multiple rules to turn on lights to different brightnesses at different times of day. I turn on sets of lights vs individual lights so it’s not the absolute most efficient in terms of power but on the other hand having lights turn off automatically is a good saver when you have kids. I use Lutron Caseta wall dimmers and dimmable LEDs everywhere so they already have a nice fade-off effect. I once tried to code a fade-on effect but it turns out that instant on is preferable so I gave up on that (it was unreliable anyway). For low traffic areas like closets I use Lutron Caseta motion sensors; they work great and have very little configuration. One note of advice - there is a lot of grey market Lutron stuff on Amazon; you can get burned by clones or up-labeled stuff that doesn’t function exactly as advertised. I would stick to buying at a home store or buying from the Lutron store on Amazon.