Lack of brightness change events in History/Logbook

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Hi all,

I’ve been using the KNX plugin for HA for a while, however there is one thing I’m struggling with.
In both History and Logbook I can see all the on/off events for my KNX dimmable lights, but I don’t see any “brightness changed” events. These events reach HA as I can use them in my automations, but I don’t see them in the History / Logbook (I guess that they are not written to the DB by Recorder?)

Anyone has any idea why and how to change this?
I was thinking about creating a templated trigger for any brightness modification on any of my lights and writing a custom Logbook entry every time any of their brighness changes, but it sounds like an overkill (and I also could not find any elegant way to do it :/)

Would appreciate any help!

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Brightness is an attribute, not a state. It will not appear in the Logbook or History page.

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You can however just create a Knx sensor on the brightness GA if you need this history stat for something 🤷.

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Thanks @tom_l , that explains it.

@farmio, I know I can create a per-light sensor, but I’d like to have an entry in the log every time someone changes the brightness of any of the lights and I have 66 of those :scream:

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Yes, I have this problem as well. Some of my dimmers change their brightness seemingly with no reason but without a logbook entry I’m pretty much at a loss for how to find the cause.

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