I am trying to control a light group created in Phoscon including 10 or so Tradfri dimmable non-color non-temperature bulbs.
When adding the deconz group to 3.1.0.M4 I get a thing that does not have brightness, but a color channel. I therefore manually created a dimmer item and connected it to the color channel. This seems to work in general, I can dim the light group. But somehow, setting the slider to 0 does not switch off the lights, but sets them to the lowest brightness.
Using an ON/OFF switch allows to switch off the light group, but itâs not a very good experience to have two controls for one light.
Is this a bug or by design? Any pointers of how to fix it? I could probably code a rule that sends an âOFFâ if the dimmer goes to 0, but that seems a bit strange.
In the Phoscon page, sliding the brightness to 0 actually switches off the lights.
The issue is that the the binding does not send OFF to the deconz software when the brightness is zero. The light the stays at the lowest possible brightness (depends on the light, usually 5%). The code for checking âbrightness==0 then send offâ is missing in the lightgroup. It is present only for lights.
The OP worked around that issue by connecting a Switch to the channel, which by definition can only send on/off.
