This seems very specific but cant figure out a solution yet.
I’ve spend the weekend reconfiguring my Hue lighting from fully controlled via HA (if HA is offline, then no lighting) to a direct binding between dimmer switch and light unit which will give me basic lighting functionality.
Specifically, this is the Hue Dimmer Switch V2, and various Hue bulbs from replacement bulbs, and the Aurelle & Being models that are complete light units.
HA automations have been changed from the Dimmer switch button presses, to “when light turns on” trigger.
Some lights are also toggled via other systems like door switches or PIR sensors, or via the HA entity. These are the ones with issues.
eg: Off to On state.
When that happens, the HUE Dimmer switch needs a second press to turn off that device. Almost like the dimmers internal memory thinks the first press is off > on, then second press is on > off.
Based on the log of the dimmer switch presses, these are simply detected as “short press power button” and has no on/off knowledge that i can see.
Any ideas whats going on here and how to fix/workaround the problem?