Configure if rfxtrx device is switch or dimmer

Third party integrations
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I don’t seem to be able to configure if a rfxtrx switch is a dimmer or just a on/off switch.
If the switch is just an on/off switch it still shows as a dimmer in HA and also in homekit.
Does anyone know a way to fix this?

2

Any?
Have same issue.

3

You have to add it as a light to be able to use the dimmer functionality

4

I (We) know that. But not al of my rfxtrx switches with lights attached are dimmable.
So in my config I add a rfxtrx light, but then it automatically assumes that it’s dimmable which isn’t correct.

I’m now thinking that there might be a workaround.
The lights which are not dimmable could be added as a switch to HA. After that with customization I could give them the bulb icon.
But then in the background they would still be switches so they won’t show up as lights in Homekit.

5

Yeah, that is the only solution for the moment.

6

Guess I’ll create a feature request for this one. Maybe someone some day will have a couple of minutes to implement this.

7

It is not just a couple of minutes to change this.
By design, no home-assistant switches have dimming functionality.

8

(one year later)…
The case is already solved:
Dimming with Rfxtrx #969

One example here

9

I don’t think that it’s solved.
As far as I know, I still can’t say if a light is dimmable or only on/off.
I can add the lights as switches, but then they’re not lights.

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I can dim the lights with HA when I set them as light.

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You’re missing the issue here.
The problem is NOT that I can’t dim lights.
It’s that I also have lights which cannot dim phyiscally.
That’s why I want to disable the dimming for certain lights.
I could of course put them up as switches, but then they would show up as the 2 lightning bolts in stead of the light icon.

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There is a workaround possible which I’m using (although in a slightly different setting).

My situation: I have a (z-wave) switch that controls a lamp (entity switch.kitchen_lights), but I want to include it in a lightgroup.
My workaround: create a template light, that controls the switch:

light:
  - platform: template
    lights:
      kitchen_lights:
        value_template: '{{ is_state("switch.kitchen_lights", "on") }}'
        turn_on:
          service: switch.turn_on
          entity_id: switch.kitchen_lights
        turn_off:
          service: switch.turn_off
          entity_id: switch.kitchen_lights

Now you have an entity called light.kitchen_lights, that looks and works like any other on/off light in HA.

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Thanks vloris! That’s a workable workaround even though it’s not the most cleanest one. :slight_smile: