How to dim lights in Home app on M1 MacBook Air

[jonnyb]

When I open the Home app on my new M1 MacBook Air (running Big Sur, of course), I can't find how to dim and un-dim lights. I used to do it on my old Air running Catalina by two scrolling on the yellow indicator but now that action scrolls the entire window. I thought maybe I could click and drag, but as soon as I click it just switches the bulb off completely.

Can anyone who has HomeKit lights set up try this on their new M1 Mac? Thanks

 

[titan4]

You can double-click on the lights and an extra window opens where you can dim the lights. Yea, I agree that it's probably not the best design.

 

[matrix07]

Could you try 2 fingers slide left and right?

 

[jonnyb]

You can double-click on the lights and an extra window opens where you can dim the lights. Yea, I agree that it's probably not the best design.

Yeah - I’ve done that. I double click on the light and the extra window pops up, but I can’t interact with the tall roundrect light indicator other than to click on it to turn it off. It’s either all yellow, ie 100% or off.

 

[andyv3gg1e]

Same Issue here. iMac running Big Sur. On and off but no dimming functionality. It used to work before the update. iPhone and iPad home apps are fine.
Update - actually worse. The popup window allows the light to be turned off but not on again. It changes the big slider to yellow but says it is off (and it is off). Totally broken...

 

[titan4]

Yeah - I’ve done that. I double click on the light and the extra window pops up, but I can’t interact with the tall roundrect light indicator other than to click on it to turn it off. It’s either all yellow, ie 100% or off.

Ah I see. My Hue lights are working fine, including dimming and color changing. Sorry.

 

[chabig]

I double click on the light and the extra window pops up, but I can’t interact with the tall roundrect light indicator other than to click on it to turn it off.

You're supposed to be able to click and drag the slider up and down, just like on an iPhone. It works for me. I'm using a MacBook Pro trackpad, but it should also work with a mouse. Click and drag.

 

[jonnyb]

You're supposed to be able to click and drag the slider up and down, just like on an iPhone. It works for me. I'm using a MacBook Pro trackpad, but it should also work with a mouse. Click and drag.

Thanks. For whatever reason, this was not working and now it does. I have no idea why, but hey!

 

[andyv3gg1e]

Thanks. For whatever reason, this was not working and now it does. I have no idea why, but hey!

That's Strange because it still doesn't work for me. On Mouse 2 or Trackpad on iMac

 

[andyv3gg1e]

MacOS updated and it started to work using mouse and trackpad on the iMac.
Then after an update they broke it again. Slider wont move - it scrolls the whole popup window.
Come on Apple get your act together please...

 

[y3kde]

Had the same problem and hoped it would be cured with macos 12.3 - it didn´t :-(

What helped me was deleting the content of ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Home/Data/Library/Caches

Afterwards I was able to slide the bulb controls again ;-)

 

[NiromX]

When I open the Home app on my new M1 MacBook Air (running Big Sur, of course), I can't find how to dim and un-dim lights. I used to do it on my old Air running Catalina by two scrolling on the yellow indicator but now that action scrolls the entire window. I thought maybe I could click and drag, but as soon as I click it just switches the bulb off completely.

Can anyone who has HomeKit lights set up try this on their new M1 Mac? Thanks

The control have to be on your MacBook screen. It won't work if you use an external monitor

 

[LeighJ]

The control have to be on your MacBook screen. It won't work if you use an external monitor

Was trying to get this to work for ages... this was the answer. Thanks!