Best Practices For Setting Up Dimmer with Smart Bulb

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Hi,

I’m looking for some advice or best practices for configuring dimming when in smart bulb mode.

I have an inovelli blue smart dimmer, philips hue downlights and home assistant as a hub.

I tried setting up an automation to trigger when the up/down paddle is held. This runs a script that runs in a loop to step the brightness up/down by 5% and then on release the script is stopped.

This works great and provides the instant dimming while the holding down the paddle. The only issue is that the dimmer level on the switch may not be in the same brightness level and the held up/down state will end if the switch dimmer level gets to 100% or 0%.

I also tried setting an automation to match the dimmer level of the switch, but that seems to only catch the switch brightness level either when I start holding down the paddle or when I end.

If anyone has worked on this problem, I would love to hear how you handled it. Thanks!

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Connect the Hue lights directly to Home Assistant (if not already), put them in a Zigbee group, and bind the Dimmer the group of lights. No need for automations, the Dimmer will communicate with the lights directly and dim them.

EDIT: This is likely getting a little old with some of the updates to HA and such, but read this article…

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That worked, thank you!

The differences between the documentation and the latest HA release (2026.8.3) is that to create groups you need to go to settings–>zigbee–> “# groups” → create group

Also to get to the bindings from the switch entity screen, select the 3 dots to the right of reconfigure and click manage zigbee device.

Working great for me!