From Home Assistant, dimmers show as switches

[JackRazors]

Is it possible to make a switch a dimmer light?

I have a few Dimmer’s from my Home Assistant and they all show as switches (on/off).

Under Properties, I changed the Capabilities to ‘Dimmer’ and selected the appropriate Tile and Details templates however, I get an error, “Invalid variable, Light.Level.Value”. Any ideas how to make Home Remote see it as a dimmer?

Thx.

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

Add SwitchLevel to the device capabilities. It sounds like Home Assistant is no longer using SUPPORT_BRIGHTNESS flag to indicate whether a switch includes dimming control. The Home Remote uses that flag to automatically add the capability. For the time being, you’ll need to manually add it.

Zwave Dimmer Switch

My guess is that Home Assistant integration you are using for this dimmer is not properly setting the “SUPPORT_BRIGHTNESS” flag. If it did, the Home Remote would have automatically added SwitchLevel to the Capabilities on this object. Manually enter it & see if it works. Update the capabilities to look like this: Switch SwitchLevel

[JackRazors]

Thanks! Not sure how I missed that article but thanks for linking it. It worked like a charm!

[ChrisGround (Christian Hache)]

Hi Bill, how can manually add capability to a device ?

Thanks !

[KalleVC (Kalle)]

Hi Christian,
go to your device folder - select a device and add the capability by typing in the capabilities field.

Kalle