Hey all, I’ve recently implemented HA in my house and have had some pushback from the wife. One of her big issues is easily resolvable in that she hates the default dashboard, and how far she has to scroll to get to what she wants. No problem, working in a custom dashboard for that. The other issue that’s really been standing out is the brightness sliders. Most of our lights are Hue lights and before I removed them from the Hue bridge so I could pair them with a zigbee dongle she would use the Hue app to control them, and when she dimmed them in the app, the lights would dim as she moved the slider. In HA it doesn’t change until she lets go, and she doesn’t like that. Is there any way to make them update in realtime?
#Any way to make sliders update lights in realtime?
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It's not perfect but if you use slider button cards through HACS you can set their 'repeat' action option to be say 500ms which will have it update the value as you drag it around.
Sadly base HA doesn't have this option
https://github.com/mattieha/slider-button-card?tab=readme-ov-file#action-options
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Sweet, I’ll give this a try. I love how functional HA is and how little effort it takes to add devices, so if I can make my wife happy with it, that’ll be a big win. Thank you!