One such IoT devotee is [Sasa Karanovic], who writes in to tell us about his very impressive custom IoT LED dimmer based on the ESP8266. Rather than rely on a commercial lighting controller ...

Second, that it uses two high-side LED drivers, one for cold white light ... As usual, I went with an ESP8266 of the Wemos Mini D1 variety, running NodeMCU. The firmware is very standard this ...