When I started setting up pistons, I plucked for the “Fade to” action a lot, and found the results to be variable based on the kind of light I was controlling. For Hue lights, they seem to rapidly cycle through bright, very dim, brighter, and then bright again, while a Qubino dimmer unit turns on bright and then dims, or the other way around, unpredictably.
I then discovered “Set level” which seems more reliable but doesn’t seem to do much in the way of smooth dimming - the lights change level pretty instantly.
I also noticed that with “Fade level” the logs show webcore sending multiple commands to the lights over a short period with different levels. This seems like a bit of a hack, for lights that don’t accept 'fade to x over y seconds" type commands? And my lights seem to receive those commands out of order, maybe.
So I guess my questions are:
- Is there a recommended set of devices that work well with “fade to” (especially in-wall dimmers)?
- Do people generally use this command or is ‘set level’ more common?
- Any other tips on getting lots of dimmers across the house to dim in sync?