I have blinds on my window and for a long time, I was wondering how to integrate them into my Home Assistant setup. The blinds are operated by a standard three-position switch that controls a motor to either open or close the blinds. The challenge was to make these blinds smart without using any dedicated position sensors, which would normally tell me whether the blinds are fully open, fully closed, or somewhere in between.
Sometimes, you may encounter a situation where a Zigbee light turns on at its minimum brightness by default. After a bit of research, it turns out there’s a setting that defines the brightness level of the light upon turning on. Interestingly, among several lights, one had its brightness level set to 1 at startup.
Here’s how to set it up:
action: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: zigbee2mqtt/celing_lamp1/set
payload: "{\"level_config\": {\"on_level\": \"previous\"}}"
As implied by the command, this mode sets the light to its previous brightness level upon turning on.