I have an evening sensor rule that if there is motion after my phillips hue lights have turned off, they turn up a little bit and then off again after no motion. My issue is that the next day when I turn the lights on again with my Google Home, the lights are in their dim state from the motion rule. Is there way to set the brightness of the lights without turning them on?
do you use another automation to turn them on in the morning? If so just set your desired brightness in there.
Not currently. I could resort to that, but I would like to do it without turning the lights on if possible.
You could set the brightness right before you turn the light on with a template. Do you want the brightness to change value based on time?
I have this problem with my bathroom lights. Late at night, when you walk into bathroom, the lights will go on but very dim, like 45. Brightness 255 is way too bright at 2 am in the morning. This stinks when you get up at 7 am and have to manually turn up the lights.
My not so graceful solution :
I have an automation that kicks in at 05:58 every morning. It turns on the bathroom lights to 255 for 1 minute and then turns them off. Now when I get up, an hour later, and turn the lights on, they go full blast.
Iâm also looking for this⌠resorted to what Keith said above. Would be great to just reset to 100% without turning on the light.
Use scenes.
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I understand what a scene is, but donât know how this helps in this situation? My Milights/LimitlessLED donât respond to brightness setting without using the âonâ function. The only way Iâve seen this done is a quick âon (brightness 100%) -> offâ cycle to prepare them for day operation.
so you canât turn them on and set them to 100%?
Thank makes no sense.
You have a scene for âDayâ (100%) and âNightâ (25%) and use that scene instead of turning the light on or off.
Hi, @Tim10 - I have to ask how you turn the lights on in the morning (Iâm not fmiliar with these specific lights). Iâm assuming there is a smart switch or a motion sensor. In my case, I have scenes defined for different situations. Then whatever turns the lights on (Hue dimmer switch, motion sensor, etc) have enough logic to set the desired scene.
Can you share how you turn them on? Then we can help.
From the docs - that sounds a bit limiting - would have thought you could set up a group of one light:
LimitlessLED bulbs are controlled via groups, so you can only control an individual bulb via the bridge if it is in a group by itself.
Further in the docs is a reference to a night mode. Maybe thatâs what you are after (?). Actually sounds kind of cool!
LimitlessLED has a
nighteffect that can be used to dim the lights belowbrightness: 1. This night mode is meant to temporarily turn the lights into a nightlight. This mode can be especially helpful when wall switches are also being used. For example, when a light is using thenighteffect one way to return it to its previous brightness level (other than using Home Assistant) is to switch the lights off and then back on from the wall switch.
The last sentence implies this can be done from HA. And if that can be done from HA, then we should be able to figure out how to adjust the brightness based on the time of day (morning).
I see what youâre both saying. Perhaps as Kirby said some background would help.
I have these on groups (soon to have a new controller arriving so that I can control all without the limitation of groups). They are currently manual on/off via standard light switches (another limitation), but plan to have them on Aqara motion sensors so the girlfriend will be less likely to use the switches.
Currently if one of us dims a light, then powers it off from HA app at night, when I turn it back on in the morning from the app itâs still on dim setting. Maybe Iâll have to create a reset to set a scene as forsquirel recommended. I can turn them on and set to 100% as a two step process. I guess I could create a scene/script to do that and assign to a new âLounge light onâ button for example. I think this is what youâre both suggesting? I am new to this stuff, so the thought processes on logic is still slow to take hold!
I think when I get the motion sensors this issue will be a moot point as it can be more easily automated.
Thanks for your input, I appreciate it.
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If youâre using HA to turn the lights on and off you can do this all through scenes. In fact the best thing to do is just have a scene card on the front end and select the scene you want ie 25,50,75,100% and so on and use that as the on button. You can use another scene button to turn off the light or toggle it normally.
I know what youâre saying about the lights being dim. Its normal behaviour. Most lights retain their last state. My Hue lights do this and thatâs why I only turn them on and off via scripts and scenes.
Yes, perfect. I created a scene card and it works much better, thanks. Have ordered some Aqara motion sensors so looking forward to those automating it.
Yup! Iâm using scenes now and itâs much better.
Iâve also just this morning put together a https://blog.christophermullins.com/2017/02/11/milight-wifi-gateway-emulator-on-an-esp8266/ one of these.
It worksâŚafter 4 hours of being a complete noob and overcoming all the hurdles of Arduino building in PlatformIO⌠all new stuff to me! Now I need to figure out how to make it work with more than the standard 4 groups (which is the whole point of the project). Not wrapped my head around that part yet.
Only 4 hours? That would have taken me 4 weeks! 
Glad to hear youâre making progress!
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Haha, thanks.
I have just added Zigbee today with a zzh! stick⌠That took a while too. Great learning experience though.
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