None of the switches support scenes from an aux switch, so it could not have worked on any platform. Switching to a Red won’t fix the issue you’re having either.
When you set smart bulb mode you can turn the dimmer on and off with single up and down taps via the aux switch. That can be captured. You can also dim it and capture the new dim level. None of these require using automations. All of those actions cause the led bar and what is in HA to show the changes, but the output stays full on.
Here is an example of how you get the dimmer level changing to another device.