Ashley’s Light Fader 2.01✨: fade lights and/or color temperature with your choice of easing (curves), including ease-in, ease-out, and ease-in-out

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@kubilayc38

Thank you for the really helpful script! I was just wondering how I could use this script to always fade my light if I change the brightness. So that if I change the brightness a fade should always be applied.

@kubilayc38

But I am controlling my lights through my Google Assistant and my Google Home App where the number helper does not appear and thus cannot be used. Is it somehow possible to make this work?

Hi, @kubilayc38!

For better or for worse, what you describe—having this fader script be automatically applied for all light transitions—isn’t really possible. And that’s in part because when you change your lights through Google Assistant or the Google Home app, that controls the lights directly, which bypasses most of the triggers that Home Assistant can hook into.

With that being said, if the lights that you’re wanting to control might have built-in support for transitions, there’s a chance that you might be able to get an automatic fading effect whenever you change the lights’ levels through Google Assistant or the Google Home App by setting up a default transition time for some (or all) of your lights using light_profiles.csv.

I haven’t messed about with light_profiles.csv myself, so if by chance you were to get stuck, I unfortunately won’t be able to help you with that part. But if it may help as a starting point, it looks like this thread goes over the broad strokes of the syntax for light_profiles.csv.