I’ve bought a Hue Tap Dial, in the hope that it can be installed on top of the standard European switches. Leaving the installation aside, I am trying to understand how to configure the device. Hue native app is not very useful, IMO. I reset it there (“configure in another app”), and am trying to configure in Home Assistant. For the buttons, all is easy. But for the dial, I am stuck. Since there are four buttons and one dial, I’d love to be able to use the latter to control brightness of the last light I controlled with a button. So I press the button, light goes on, then I rotate the dial to increase/decrease brightness of that particular light. If I press another button, another light is toggled, and the dial now controls brightness of that light. Can I achieve this? I was hoping to introduce a setting variable (I already have a few) that would change each time when I press a button, to point to the light controlled with that button. Is this possible?
If you use Hue integration with the HA, then you won’t really have useful rotation automation experience inside HA. Problem is that Hue integration allows maximum 1 command per second.
I have many Taps, but I setup the Z2M inside HA and all Hue and Taps are connected to Z2M directly. I ditched Hue bridge and app completely
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Your development looks exactly like what I was hoping for, only I didn’t expect it won’t work with just Hue and HA on RPi. Thanks for your response and sharing your work. Can you recommend any particular Zigbee dongle? I thought there would be a “common knowledge” on the best Zigbee adapter for HA on RPi, but haven’t found it. Probably missing something, or there is not much difference. Just looking around, ConBee III or RaspBee II make most sense (well supported, ongoing development, available on Amazon). Do you agree?
I was not the one who did the blueprint.
I use Z2M with Sonoff dongle.
You see the list of available here: Supported Adapters | Zigbee2MQTT