Blue Series Dimmer - Turning off the LED any time the switch is turned off

I have a Blue Series dimmer that is not hooked to any load but is bound to two Philips Hue bulbs located in two separate lamps. This works great - no issues, response is instant, does exactly what I want. Turns on and off as expected.

I have a Home Assistant automation (running ZHA) that turns on only one of the two bulbs at sunset. This also works great. And even though the switch isn’t “on” (I just turned on the bulb, not the switch), it will turn off the single bulb. Exactly what I want.

The behavior that I am not sure how to get to work is the LED. What I would like is that when the event runs that turns on the single bulb at sunset, the bulb comes on AND the switch LED comes on (just like I had turned the switch on), but the second bulb remains off. I can do this by adding another action to the automation for “Issue Effect for all LEDs” which requires you to set the LED Hue, Brightness, and Duration. This also works.

However, when I then turn the switch off to turn the single bulb off, the switch LED remains on (based on the duration set).

I would like the LED to turn off any time I turn the switch off and I can’t seem to figure this one out.

I know I could create a separate event to turn off the LED when I turn off the switch, but that introduces some potential delay and quite honestly just doesn’t seem like an “elegant” solution. I try to avoid unneeded events if possible.

So…is there any way to do what I am looking for without a separate event?

Thanks so much.
Scott

I’m not sure I understand exactly what you’re trying to do, but I recently wanted to “notify” with the LED bar and the “normal” way wasn’t what I wanted. In my case, I wanted several switches to be red when camera(s) were turned off.

Instead of using the “issue effect”, I used the “Default All LED On/Off…” attributes to change the “base” color of the switch from blue to red. This has worked very well in my situation.

Again, I’m not really sure if this helps, but it’s a different method of manipulating the LEDs that might be useful.

MG.

Thank you so much for the response. I gave it a shot and it isn’t exactly what I’m looking for. In a nutshell, the behavior I want is:

  1. Change the LED Brightness via Home Assistant without actually turning on the switch (so it looks like is on without it actually being on)
  2. When you physically turn off the switch, the LED turns off (goes to zero brightness)

It does look like the Default All LED On/Off command is a little easier than the issue effect command since there are less parameters, but it doesn’t alleviate the need for a second event when you physically turn off the switch.

I can’t find a way to do it without having an event trigger when I turn off the switch. Not the end of the world, was just hoping for a more elegant solution.

Thanks for the suggestion!