@maesenator, just disabling the switch.adaptive_lighting_adapt_brightness_NAME_OF_INSTANCE should do the trick. I have just tried to reproduce your problem but cannot.
I strongly suspect that you have perhaps a second Adaptive Lighting instance that includes your lights, which has adapt_brightness enabled.
Please enable debugging logging (see here) and share the logs. I am pretty confident that this is an error on your side because I have seen this problem a bunch of times before and it always turned out to be a user-error.
@nonamejuju, @maesenator, @bouwew, it is the Home Assistant UI that automatically adds the checkbox in the UI next to any slider and (I think at least) I have no control over that, so that is why that checkbox doesnāt do anything.
FWIW, I was experiencing this issue with 1 out of 6 instances of AL. Instances that Iāve had running for at least a year and weāre retained during updates.
Today, Iāve removed this instance entirely and recreated it (with identical config). This evening my lights are not dimming.
I will continue to observe and provide logs if I have something to log, but for now it appears to be resolved.
PS: I can guarantee that the brightness switch was turned off. It is for all my instances.
Did you ever find a fix for the delay on the Caseta lights? I understand Lutron intentionally delays sending the update to its hub by a few seconds, which occasionally causes Adaptive Lighting to enable manual control.
I have a function request.
A function visit/guest/party equal the sleep function, but to be used when we have a guest at home and we want to keep the light at a higher temperature and brightness.
Basically duplicating the sleep function.
Do you mean a toggle that would override the adaptive function and set brightness/color to a specific range? That could be accomplished with a toggle helper and automation.
Does anyone know if thereās an accessible place that the configurations are stored when theyāre created in the GUI? Iād like to duplicate a configuration then tweak it slightly.
I know it is possible using helpers and automation, but the idea is to replicate the operation of sleep mode, but use it to maintain a higher temperature and brightness.
Letās say I have 3 different automations that turn on a lamp and I create a āGuest Modeā helper.
When turning on the guest mode, I disable Adaptive Lighting, so in each of the three automations I have to check if the āGuest Modeā helper is on and tell it to turn on the lamp and change the brightness and temperature.
If the āGuest Modeā function is integrated with Adaptive Lighting, all we need to do is turn on the guest mode and Adaptive Lighting remains in control, as it already does with sleep mode.
In addition to your suggestion, there are at least two more options:
Use sleep mode to do this job, but then you lose sleep mode as it should be used.
Use an automation to change the parameters of sleep mode according to the condition, sleep mode or guest mode.
However, I think it would be interesting for the integration itself to have this feature natively.