If you have Alexa-compatible smart lights and live in the U.S., you’ve got some new features that will be rolling out this week. With the new Alexa lighting features, you can set up wake-up lights or sleep timers and create new Alexa Routines to dim or brighten over a certain stretch of time, giving you a huge amount of control over how your home is lighted. Here’s how the new features work.

Wake-up Lighting

One new feature is called Wake-up Lighting. This feature basically makes your smart lights mimic the sun rising in your home, but on your schedule. For example, you can make it so your bedside lamp turns on and gradually gets brighter when it’s time to wake up. To set up Wake-up Lighting say something like, “Alexa, set an alarm for (time) with my bedside lamp.” If you want your light to do this every day, you’ll need to set up a recurring alarm by saying something like, “Alexa, set up an alarm for every morning at (time) with my bedside lamp.” If you have a lighting group set up you can say, “Alexa, wake me up at (time) with lights.”

Sleep Lighting Timer

Another new feature is called Sleep Lighting Timer. You can use it to set up the perfect sleep routine by creating an Alexa sleep timer that gradually dims your lights before turning off at night to get you in the mood to sleep. It can turn off music playing on your Echo device, too. To get the Sleep Lighting Timer set up say, “Alexa, set a 30-minute sleep timer with bedside lamp.” If you have a lighting group set up say, “Alexa set a 30-minute sleep timer with lights.”