Hi, I recently switched from a Fibaro HC2 to a Home Assistant Core hub. It took some getting used to, but what a relief it is now! I have several Z-Wave dimmers in my home. Some of them were always limited in their maximum output on my HC2 (because otherwise, the lights would turn off when set to full brightness). In Fibaro, I could set the light to full, but the maximum was already limited in the settings. After switching to Home Assistant, these lights (often large clusters of spots) turn off again when someone sets the slider in Home Assistant to 100%. How can I limit the maximum brightness in Home Assistant like I did in the HC2? I’m still relatively new to this and can’t seem to find it in the specific entity settings.
Your devices might have a configuration parameter to set the max brightness. I have Fibaro FGD212 modules which use parameter 2 (see screenshot) available by clicking CONFIGURE on the device page.
Another option is to create a template light that scales 0-100% down to 0-(X)% on the “real” light. This still requires writing some yaml but works with any light entity.
It only shows hidden configrations. Might be a stupid question, but the screen from peterxian is something i Remember when I was still using HC2. I unlearned and relearned all my zwave devices, don’t know how to get to that screen in home assistant.
Like so many things in Home Assistant, there’s more than one way to do it!
Looks like you’ve chosen Z-wave JS UI (ZUI) as your Z-wave add-on, which is actually great, and enabled the MQTT bridge, which is why your Z-wave devices show up as MQTT integration devices. That’s fine, you’re not losing any functionality, it’s just in a different place. ZUI has its own configuration dashboard / control panel where the devices are listed and where configurations parameters can be changed. It should look like this:
