Help needed: JSON for dimming lights

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Dear friends of automation and HA,

I am struggeling with a JSON code. That’s not a huge surprise since I am not a coder :wink:

What I use:

Challenge:
The Elgato Stream Deck Plus has 4 controll dials. One of them should be used to controll the brightness of the LED strip. In order to do more than just toggle the light.turn_on entity you need to write a JSON. The attributes are nicely desribed here, I just dont know how to put this in the JSON code. What do I have to enter into the JSON section?
This is what I see in the add-on menue of the Elgato Stream Deck Software.
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Could anyone help me out here? I am really not a programmer…
Thanks
Julz

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You have to use “English” quotes, I’m afraid. Should look like this:

{"Option": "brightness"}
3

Damn, you are right. Noob error. Changed it and that erases the JSON error from the picture above.
grafik

However, does not change brightness on the LED strip yet. Something missing?

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See here:

You probably want something like

{ "brightness_pct": 70 }
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Yeah, we are getting there. The JSON you suggested at least does something for the first time :partying_face:
It sets the brightness once to the value i.e. 70
However, since it is a controll wheel I want it to increase/decrease when the dial is turned.

grafik
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Any idea how to solve that?

The question might be how to include those variables:
grafik

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I’d be guessing off the documentation, as I don’t have one of those. Now you’ve solved the initial issue, I’d start another topic “Using Elgato StreamDeck to dim lights” or something like that.

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I am not sure if you have solved this , but here is how you control the brightness using your dial.
Domain = light
Service = Turn on
Enitity = “your light”
Service Data JSON =
{
“brightness”: {{ rotationAbsolute }}
}

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I found this JSON code worked for me:

{
  "brightness_step_pct" : "{{ ticks }}"
}
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