I wonder if someone using an Eve dimmer with Homekit could check whether it allows changing the minimum brightness. I have mine connected to Home Assistant, and when I set the level to 1/255, the light goes to something like 60% brightness. I could not get its Android app to work at all and, in any case, the Play Store reviews say it has barely any features.
Interesting! The Eve Dimmer with HomeKit is usually pretty well integrated, but from what I know, it doesn’t expose a direct “minimum brightness” setting through HomeKit itself. HomeKit generally handles brightness as a percentage from 0% to 100%, but it’s up to the device firmware to interpret those values.
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Ok, thanks. Eve seems to have a solid basic Matter light implementation in its dimmer, but it is not configurable beyond that, in any way. I was thinking that if the Homekit app has some configuration options, then they would come to the Android app, eventually, as well.
Eve’s support took two weeks to reply, but they say the Eve App has dimming threshold settings:
- Eve app > Settings > Accessories > Eve device > Dimming Thresholds > Minimum
- Eve app > Settings > Accessories > Eve device > Dimming Thresholds > Maximum
Unfortunately, the Android app only works with Google Home, not Home Assistant.
Reading the Matter spec, I see that the Level Control cluster provides the MinLevel attribute that should be responsible for setting that minimum brightness. So, it is either Home Assistant that is not exposing this attribute or Eve that is using a custom cluster, instead of a standard attribute.