Automatically change dim setting without affecting on/off status
Hi all,
I recently set up some TAPO lights in my bathroom linked to a H100 hub and a S200D dimmer switch.
For me, the main use case is to automatically change the dim setting of my lights in the evening, such that whenever I'm using the bathroom at night, the light is not too harsh. What I don't want is for the lights to automatically be switched on, regardless of whether I'm actually in the bathroom or not.
I have played around with both the TAPO app and Google home and can't for the life of me figure out how to make this work without the lights being switched on at the same time that the dim is adjusted. Does anyone have any idea how I can set this up?
For me, this is the number 1 reason for having a smart light set-up. If I can figure this out, I would extend the smart light set-up to the rest of my apartment. If can't get it working, I would rather stick to regular "dumb" lights.
By Auto-dim, I am referring to the automation I set up to automatically dim the lights at night time. I have set the night time dim setting to be triggered whenever the lights are on during night time hours - I have also created an equivalent automation for daytime hours. I have then created an automation for the switch to change to on/off status.
This was still not sufficient: at 6.01 the lights would be switched on regardless of whether or not I had pressed the button. I then created a further automation to disable the dimming automations whenever the lights were off, thinking that would finally do the trick - and they still switched on automatically at 6.01!!!! They seem to be absolutely determined to automatically switch on no matter what I do!
Here are the automations I set up:
Evelyn91 wrote
By Auto-dim, I am referring to the automation I set up to automatically dim the lights at night time. I have set the night time dim setting to be triggered whenever the lights are on during night time hours - I have also created an equivalent automation for daytime hours. I have then created an automation for the switch to change to on/off status.
This was still not sufficient: at 6.01 the lights would be switched on regardless of whether or not I had pressed the button. I then created a further automation to disable the dimming automations whenever the lights were off, thinking that would finally do the trick - and they still switched on automatically at 6.01!!!! They seem to be absolutely determined to automatically switch on no matter what I do!
Here are the automations I set up:
I believe you've created some schedules for the light/switch. The automation won't be executed unless the Trigger (When) is activated. In the above automation, none of the triggers are time, which is automatically triggered; instead, it will be executed only after specific operations are performed.
If your device is associated with a third-party service, such as Alexa or Google, you can also check whether a schedule, time-related scene or automation is set for the device there.