Can I control light bulb brightness from a Zigbee light switch?

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Hi,

I have installed a new Zigbee light switch and can now turn 0n/off the lights but wanted to ask please if there is a way to control the light brightness as well?

thanks

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Too little information…
Does the switch has some kind of dimer? Which model?

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Hi,

The switch doesn’t have dimmer. it is the one in the link below:

Thanks

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That device looks to be just a switch. The online manual says it works with motors or fluorescent lights, which strongly suggests dimming is not involved.

There seems to be a separate product which supports dimming:

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It has originally been made for ther Ikea E1743 switch, but I can’t see any reason it would not work with any zigbee switch :wink:

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Either you know something I don’t about this device, or… that isn’t right.

That blueprint is for an Ikea remote, which sends “brightness move up” and “brightness move down” action events. It’s not a switch.

It looks like the device Fady is asking about is not a remote, but an actual “on / off” wired switch with Zigbee functionality. I don’t think it can send those events, and more importantly, does not seem to physically have a way to respond to receiving them.

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hmm, good question, if i look at the blueprint, i can see different options for decons,zha and zigbee2mqtt


  actions_mapping:
    deconz:
      button_up_short: ['1002']
      button_up_long: ['1001']
      button_up_release: ['1003']
      button_down_short: ['2002']
      button_down_long: ['2001']
      button_down_release: ['2003']
    zha:
      button_up_short: ['on']
      button_up_long: [move_with_on_off_0_83]
      button_up_release: [stop]
      button_down_short: ['off']
      button_down_long: [move_1_83]
      button_down_release: [stop]
    zigbee2mqtt:
      button_up_short: ['on']
      button_up_long: [brightness_move_up]
      button_up_release: [brightness_stop]
      button_down_short: ['off']
      button_down_long: [brightness_move_down]
      button_down_release: [brightness_stop]

i use my on/off ikea switch for dimming, depending on if i short or long press…

But it could well be that you need to tinker a bit with the blueprint :thinking:

You could start by monitoring mqtt (mqtt-explorer) to see which commands are send…
f.e. you could use one button for on/off and the other for dimming?