Yes, I know what the Philips Hue Dimmer Switch looks like. And we have been telling you that you need to use light.turn_on with the brightness_step parameter adjust the brightness of your lights by, well, the given step (with a negative value for the Down button of course).
I am using the light.turn_on parameter set on the “on” button, as that’s the only button that I require to turn the light on
The dim up/down should only adjust the brightness if the light is on, thus having the light.turn_on parameter against those burns would be inappropriate, however there is no brightness step parameter to set against those buttons
Well, if you want to adjust the brightness step, you will have to use the service. If you don’t want it to operate on lights that are not currently switched on, you will have to add some conditions around the service call. Fortunately, you can easily do that.
Edit: You might even get around the conditions with some clever templating, see Add action to update light state without turning on - #12 by 123 for inspiration.
I’m not 100% convinced you’re fully understanding the use case and how the switch is configured, maybe it’s me being the idiot in explaining it
All I want is that, whilst the light is on, pressing the dim up or down button results in a less harsh brightness step. At a guess I’d say that each press results in a 20% change
Yes, I do understand. You use the light.turn_on service with the parameter brightness_step for that. If you do not want that call to turn on lights that currently off, you have to filter light group in the entity template (or add some more elaborate conditions around the service call). There is no magic “change all brightness steps” setting to make that work with device triggers.
where do i find the yaml file to post?
i’ve had a look thru various yaml files and can’t see anything that has the switch config in it.
You can change the view to YAML while editing the switch. But it does not matter anymore, what we needed to know was visible on your previous screenshot. You just don’t like the answer.
I just tryed to add a blueprint for the eglo 99099 remote, but for some reason it does not show up in switch manager
Anyone able to help out here?
I have an issue which I can’t figure out. I use a HUE Dimmer V2 via Z2M.
On the press event I have this yaml code configured. But somehow the input select triggers two next’s. In the logbook most of the time there are two entries see below
Logbook
Woonkamer Scenes changed to Woonkamer Romantisch triggered by service Input Select: Next
20:25:11 - 29 minutes ago
Woonkamer Scenes changed to Woonkamer Overdag triggered by service Input Select: Next
20:25:11 - 29 minutes ago
YAML
- service: input_select.select_next
data:
cycle: true
target:
entity_id: input_select.woonkamer_scenes
- service: scene.turn_on
target:
entity_id: >-
{{'scene.' + states('input_select.woonkamer_scenes').replace("
","_").lower()}}
Hey @Sian (or anyone else),
I’d love to get my Inovelli 2-1 dimmer switch to dim/brighten when holding the button, and then stop dimming/brightening upon release. Could anyone explain to me how to do this within switch manger?