Dimming lights with rotary encoder on ESP8266 and ESPHome

[michel72 (Michel - espthings.io)]

Issue with rotary encoder dimming a light group

I have setup easyesp with a rotary encoder. The encoder is configured with a value from 1-100 with every ‘click’ making 4 steps. I have also tried setting it up with a value from 0-16 with 1 step per ‘click’ and translating that to a brightness value from 0-255, but that only improves it just a little, but is still pretty unusable. I then use the state value of the rotary encoder entity to control a lights brightness_pct from 0-100. If I view the entity of the encoder in hass, the value goes …