Controlling brightness only if the lamp already is on

[Magnus]

Thank you for a great application!

I have made a fake window with Ikea Floalt panels and it would be great if it to some extent could mirror the light outside. Is there any way to, for a technical novice, create a scenario like the following? If the lamp x is already on and sunset occurs, set dim level 2 otherwise do nothing? The catch is that I don't want to turn the light on if I'm not home, only set the dim level it if its already been turned on.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Magnus

[stefangsbb]

You can create a SunTimer where the action sets the OnBrightness attribute to a lower value at night and back to a higher value in the morning. If the lamp is off, it will not be turned on by this and if the lamp is on, the brightness will be changed immediately.

[Magnus]

Thank you for your answer, though I didn't find a way to set OnBrightness from the SunTimer. Since I can't access Onbrightness if I use the lamp in the timer's OnCommand my best guess is that I should I use the custom action Set, but I haven't figured out how?

Best regards,
Magnus

[stefangsbb]

Ok, no - the GUI for the set command is really cryptic (sorry for that). This is the way you do it:

First select "set" as action, and press the apply button. After that, the command will look like this:

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set,[item name],[item attribute],[attribute value]

Edit the text, so [item name] is replaced by the name of the Lamp-Item, [item attribute] is replaced by OnBrightness and [attribute value] with the dim value you want. The result may for example be:

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set,My Lamp,OnBrightness,50

Then you press the apply button again.

Hope this helps...

[Magnus]

Brilliant, it works perfectly. Thank you!