Is there a way to increase brightness of a lamp without using light.on? It does not matter if it turns the light on as a side effect. But i only want to send the increase brightness, as csn also be done in zigbee2mqtt.
#How to send a brightness up command without using light.on?
nocturne berry
fiery sphinx
Not in HA, no
sharp lotus
Presumably you could send a custom MQTT message to trigger z2m but... why? what's wrong with light.turn_on?
fiery sphinx
Some bulbs support it, so that when you turn it on it's immediately at your desired brightness/temperature/whatever - which I agree is a pretty nice thing
sharp lotus
fair enough if you aren't triggering everything through HA i suppose
fiery sphinx
Even through HA, I've got some lights that will always come on at the previous settings and transition to the new one. So if you turn it on at 1% brightness, but it was at 100% before, you get a brief flash.
nocturne berry
Presumably you could send a custom MQTT message to trigger z2m but... why? what'...
Stopid led strip that sometimes turns off immediately after turning on. Then reports it is on in zigbee2mqtt.
In zigbee2mqtt if i slide the brightness to where-ever, it stays on instead of turning off by itself.
It turns on when i slide the brightness but also stays on😂
nocturne berry
Even through HA, I've got some lights that will always come on at the previous s...
Yes, i also have that. But cant be super bothered by that.
nocturne berry
how do i send a mqtt message to turn up brightness then?
fiery sphinx
With the mqtt.publish service
nocturne berry
yeah but how do i know what topic and message?
fiery sphinx
The Z2M docs have that
You'll also want something like MQTT Explorer to see what the topics and payloads on your broker are
nocturne berry
thanks!