Incremental changes to light brightness

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I have a question, I think it’s probably simple but I haven’t been able to figure it out. I want to increment the ‘brightness_pct’ of an entity in a script:

sequence:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 88415ac2b26a6be2c1258a5f57de5f14
    entity_id: light.smartbulb
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: {{ (state_attr('light.smartbulb', 'brightness') / 255) * 100 + 1}}
    
mode: single
icon: mdi:weather-sunset-up

But I get an error: Message malformed: expected float for dictionary value @ data['brightness_pct']

I’ve confirmed that {{ (state_attr('light.smartbulb', 'brightness') / 255) * 100 + 1}} return a float value using the Developers-> Template interface.

I’m a total noob, it’s possible that I’m going about this the wrong way entirely.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

2

You can’t use templates with device actions. Use the light.turn_on service instead.

Quote your single line templates.

Also you should limit the value to 0-255.

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Thank you.