Blue 2-1 dimming with Hue

Lighting General Discussion
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#1

Hello everyone!

I have looked around and couldn’t find direct solutions to my issues. I have Hue lights all in the Hue app/hub. It seems that having the lights added in the Hue hub disables the ability to directly control Hue lights via zigbee binding. It’s either one or the other. Unless gurus have suggestions? I also found that the only way I could find out the bulb’s zigbee id was to delete the light from the Hue app, add the light directly through ST, and find the zigbee id through the Samsung IDE site.

I guess all this aside, has anyone figured out how to dim Hue lights in the ST app? I don’t see an option to ‘decrease light percentage’ or anything like that. Parameter 258 doesn’t seem to matter if I’m in on/off mode or dimmer mode. I know from reading though articles that Philips Hue isn’t playing nice with Inovelli. (At least that’s been the case, idk if it’s still that way or heading in a different direction)

I am able to dim the lights in the ST app for whatever bulb I want, but I haven’t found a way to do this locally via the Blue 2-1 switch. No matter how I think of setting a routine, I don’t seem to see a possibility.

Thanks in advance!

#2

I know this is old, but did you land on a solution you’re happy with? I’m trying to do the same thing with Home Assistant (Z2M)-- I have an automation that’ triggered by brightness changes and then syncs the other device. For example, if the switch dims, the automation is trigged and the lights dim. Vice versa is true too. To avoid a race condition, I added a delay at the end of my automation to block a dimming change infinitely triggering the automation (automation mode is single).

What I can’t figure out is…how can I have the Blue Series Dimmer in Smart Bulb Mode always show the brightness level on the LED bar. It seems to always change to solid green when the switch is on :confused: