The dimmer has a very snappy response to the controls on my dashboard. I can turn it on or off and get any brightness with no delay, and the light actually is usually changed before the card is finished updating.
Using automations is a whole other story.
When turning the light on, it usually only wants to go to full brightness. Sometimes I can get it to go to a dim brightness and it’ll stick, sometimes it’ll start at the dim brightness and then transition itself up to full brightness, usually it just goes straight to full brightness.
edit to say that after an hour or so of messing around it seems to be happy to go to whatever brightness I call for now. I don’t know why that changed.
It simply won’t turn off. The LED on the dimmer does turn on, indicating that the switch thinks it’s off, and HA shows the light as being off, but the light bulbs stay on. To get the light to turn off, I have to go into HA and toggle it on and then back off again.
Frustratingly, it was working a month ago. My older automations wouldn’t work so I deleted them and started over. I have it pared down to just this simplest automation:
alias: Upstairs Hall Dimmer Test
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: device
device_id: ed37f3da680f4ead43a26d8967a47f26
domain: zwave_js
type: event.value_notification.central_scene
property: scene
property_key: "001"
endpoint: 0
command_class: 91
subtype: Endpoint 0 Scene 001
id: Upper Paddle
- platform: device
device_id: ed37f3da680f4ead43a26d8967a47f26
domain: zwave_js
type: event.value_notification.central_scene
property: scene
property_key: "002"
endpoint: 0
command_class: 91
subtype: Endpoint 0 Scene 002
id: Lower Paddle
condition: []
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: Upper Paddle
sequence:
- type: turn_on
device_id: ed37f3da680f4ead43a26d8967a47f26
entity_id: light.upstairs_hall_dimmer_switch
domain: light
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: Lower Paddle
sequence:
- type: turn_off
device_id: ed37f3da680f4ead43a26d8967a47f26
entity_id: light.upstairs_hall_dimmer_switch
domain: light
enabled: true
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: Upper Paddle
sequence:
- service: light.turn_on
data:
brightness_pct: 15
target:
entity_id: light.upstairs_hall_dimmer_switch
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id: Lower Paddle
sequence:
- service: light.turn_off
data: {}
target:
entity_id: light.upstairs_hall_dimmer_switch
enabled: false
mode: single
The Triggers fire as expected.
I only use one of the Choose blocks at a time. Both methods for turning the lights on and off have the same results.
The dimmer itself is configured with local control disabled and scene control enabled.
What is the Card on the Dashboard doing differently?