Lutron: Automation to cap brightness immediately when on button pressed

I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around a solution between Home Assistant automations and Lutron in order to cap the brightness at 40% when turned on between certain hours of the day.

Currently, it goes to max 100% brightness with my Lutron Caseta and then 2 seconds later, it decreases to the desired 40%. I’ve looked through settings in Lutron on the app and tinkered with HA automation settings, but that initial button press always sets it to 100% first. Is there a way to have that initial button press during certain times to be ignored or anything else I could do?

You can try using adaptive lighting. It intercepts service calls and adjust the brightness and/or color of the light based on it settings.

You can make multiple configurations and each one will supply a switch to make it active.

Thanks! Do you know if this would support intercepting a button press to adjust the brightness during a set time during the day?

From what I’ve seen in other threads about Lutron switches, this probably is not possible. The issue is that the switch simply does not report its updated state to HASS continuously, but waits a few seconds after each button press in order to make sure that you’re done with your adjustments.

So even with something like Adaptive Lighting, this wouldn’t be possible you’re saying, right?

What about the Lutron SmartBridge Pro? It looks like it exposes button pushes for all switches via Telnet. Could HA intercept those pushes and replace with an automation?