Hi! Is it possible for the blue Smart Dimmer switch to change the color of lights via direct binding? I’d like the ability to reset the bulbs to white if needed when my home network or hub is down.
I already have a blue Smart Dimmer I bound to a group of 3 lights via Hubitat. The dimmer does turn them on/off and dim them without the hub, which is great!
But if the lights are set to some funky green color, I can’t get them back to white without the hub as far as I can tell. My preference would be double-tapping up would reset them to 100% bright with like 3000k CT…but any way to do it would be nice!
Is this possible, or will my lights be “stuck” on whatever color they are with direct binding?
Someone may post a more direct/graceful option here, but here’s what I do with our Hue CT bathroom bulbs that are bound to a Blue…
I prefer a cooler white in the bathroom but my wife likes a warm white, so the default needs to (of course!) be warm white. If I had the lights cool, then when they turn off, this rule resest the bulbs’ CT such that they directly turn on warm at the next activation…
I’m just using the built-in “Advanced Zigbee CT Bulb” driver – this rule works without any special pre-staging setup/considerations (i.e. it does not turn the bulbs back on to update the color).
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Still hoping someone has a full solution. But resetting anytime a bulb turns off sounds like a decent halfway-there-solution! Thanks @hydro311
It’ll keep things consistent generally, but still leaves lights in a “can’t fix” state if any lights are currently on with some funky color when the network breaks.