HomeKit Can you set a light to always turn on at a certain percentage?

[Martinpa]

I just installed a new ceiling light and it is very bright. The light themselves are not smart, but I have a smart dimmer switch. Is there a way for the light to always turn on at the same percentage (of dim-ness)?

I usually either turn them on with the wall switch (which keeps the last setting used) or through Siri. Obviously I could ask Siri to turn it on at a certain percentage, but since it is always the same, was wondering it I could set a percentage as a baseline whenever I turn the light on?

I already had an automation to turn another light when this light is switched on, so I made sort of a circular automation where when that second light is turned on, it dims the ceiling light to 65%. It works, but it’s not super elegant. Is there a better way?

 

[dotme]

In the automation with the accessory, edit it and press the accessory button (press the right side of the button, not the left side with the icon) and you should get a percentage slider. Set it there, and it should work. Failing that, you could use a scene (again where the brightness is pre-set using the right-side of the accessory button)

If you're triggering with just the switch, then an automation "when the light turns on" set a scene where the light is "dim" is probably your best bet. It may kick in before the light reaches full brightness.

Hope this helps!

 

[Martinpa]

In the automation with the accessory, edit it and press the accessory button (press the right side of the button, not the left side with the icon) and you should get a percentage slider. Set it there, and it should work. Failing that, you could use a scene (again where the brightness is pre-set using the right-side of the accessory button)

If you're triggering with just the switch, then an automation "when the light turns on" set a scene where the light is "dim" is probably your best bet. It may kick in before the light reaches full brightness.

Hope this helps!

Thanks, making a scene seems to work better as there is no delay (there was a tiny tiny delay in my previous automation)

It seems kind of a fail of HomeKit not having some sort of default state though…