How do I set my dimmer to come on at 50% automatically at 8pm.
The dimmer is only an entity not a device, so I can’t do much with it except turn it on or off. (it took me ages to discover that was only via using the Action>Call Service - why not have entities available???)
I can’t build a scene as you can only use devices not entities.
Or If I could turn my entities into devices, life would be easier
I can manually use the dimmer from the Home view
trigger:
platform: time
at: '20:00:00'
action:
service: light.turn_on
data:
entity_id: light.your_light_here ### <- change this ###
brightness_pct: 50
See the examples at the bottom of this page:
Thanks. That works.
No problems. Please mark it solved (button at the bottom of the post that helped).
Node-red also works…
I use:
- a big-timer (using sunrise +/- 1 hour).
- a function to set payload to 25% dimmer
- call the service set the payload
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Sorry that makes no sense at all to me.
Tom_I 's reply worked