Light card brightness control UX | Home Assistant | Page 1

fair meteor Feb 17, 2026, 8:40 AM

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Am I the only one who can't reliably grab the circular brightness slider on the Light card to adjust brightness?

On a touchpad/trackpad, 9 times out of 10 when I start dragging, it turns out my cursor wasn't positioned over the exactly correct pixel* to begin a brightness adjustment.

I haven't found another card as aesthetically intuitive as the Light card (large icon + brightnes adjustments feature), but the inability to reliably adjust the brightness sadly makes it a no-go for me.

-# * to be fair, the actual pixel range is about 5px wide, but that's still a very hard target to hit with a touchpad or even a mouse

ripe escarp Feb 17, 2026, 9:19 AM

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In fairness, I have a lot of issues with track pads anyway.
You might have better luck with mushroom cards, their light card is nice

fair meteor Feb 17, 2026, 3:23 PM

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I'm new enough to HA and building a complex enough automation and policy layer that I'd like to avoid custom mods for now, thanks for the suggestion though!

idle hamlet Feb 17, 2026, 3:32 PM

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tile card with brightness slider would be the other option.

fair meteor Feb 17, 2026, 6:59 PM

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can you set the height of the tile card's icon?

royal bronze Feb 17, 2026, 8:56 PM

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not with the native UI

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But tile cards are generally used for a more compact design than the big dial.

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