I’m looking for a less expensive In-Wall Zigbee dimmer switch ($30 range) so I picked up some Jasco Enbrighten 48030 to test out. The basic functionality is great but because it remembers the last dim level, when you manually turn it on, it goes back to, for example, 25% brightness and there’s no “fast on” feature like I was used to with the old Insteon dimmer switches or the Innovelli Blue switches. To get to full brightness you have to use the app or hold up on the paddle for a few seconds. I’d like a quick way to manually go to full brightness. It doesn’t seem to support double-tap. Double-tap sends no events to ZHA. Is there a way to configure this hardware to send a double-tap event?
If not, my idea is to create an automation where if you tap the paddle “on” and the switch is already in an “on” state, then it goes to 100% brightness. This has a few problems:
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when there’s a ZHA device “on” event triggered, I don’t know how to make a condition for if the previous state was “on.” I can see in the Logbook that it does receive multiple “on” events, even though the light’s state doesn’t change.
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I plan to have 30+ switches, so ideally I could create one automation that would work for all dimmers of a particular class/model, not have to create and maintain 30+ automations, one for each switch.
BTW, I’m new to Hass and Zigbee so if Node Red or Zigbee2Mqtt has better support for this kind of thing then I’m open.
Thanks so much for the help/advise!