Hi,
I am building my first app to dim a light using a remote and the AppDeamon v4.0.3, but I am having an issue when setting the new brightness attribute. The entity updates in hassio, but it doesn’t seem to update properly because:
- The bulb doesn’t change its brightness
- The brightness attribute of the light entity is updated with the new value. However all other attributes disappear. This can be seen in the following 2 screenshots:
before pressing the remote button
after pressing the remote button
I suspect I am not setting the state correctly. Something to do with the self.set_state() function, however I cannot see what I am doing wrong. Do you have any suggestions?
Also, it would be interesting to hear alternative ways to dim the lights with AppDeamon and remotes.
Thanks in advance!
I have created the following code:
import appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi as hass
class button_pressed(hass.Hass):
def initialize(self):
self.listen_event(self.myaction, "deconz_event")
def myaction(self, entity, data, kwargs):
remote_id = "rwl021_15"
button_id = 2000
if data["id"] == remote_id and data["event"] == button_id:
#the appropriate button has been pressed
li = "light.techo_office"
b = self.get_state(entity_id=li, attribute="brightness")
n = self.increase_brightness(b)
self.set_state(entity_id=li, state="on", attributes={"brightness": n})
self.log(n)
def increase_brightness(self,b):
"""
increase brightness by step within limits
"""
step = 50
max = 255
new = b + step
if new > max:
return max
else:
return new
More Details
- Raspberry Pi 4
- HassOS 3.13
- AppDeamon plugin 0.2.5
- Light is an IKEA TRAFIDRI bulb E27 WS opal 980lm firmware 1.2.217
