I’m have made a rather simple flow for switching and dimming a group of Ikea bulbs with a Niko Zigbee connected switch. Short push : on/off toggle Long push : depending on the dim level, dim up or down It sort of works but I have a behaviour I can’t explain. When long press the lights go out and…

Thank you for taking a look. 1 dim step per long push works as intended. But apparently (I noticed in the logging) the switch always gives a short press signal, regardless of I press long. Knowing this, I just need to check if no long press is following the short press. The example you mentioned…

In that case consider switching the longpress an shortpress triggers. Longpress toggle. Shortpress dim up/down 20% (changing the dimlevel will also turn on the light, so you will only need longpress to turn off the light)

That indeed crossed my mind. But that’s a little too confusing for wife and children :grinning_face: Need to keep them happy too.

You could try the following: After the long press, set a variable “long press” to true After the short press, add a delay of 1 second, then check the variable to decide if you want to continue or not When the button is released, set the long press variable to false

As @s73nm suggested I created a variable ‘long pres is hold’ witch is changed to YES as soon the button is long pressed. Releasing the button changes it back to NO. As long as the button is hold the flow restarts itself every 1 second. Theoretically you could dim all the way down 0%. If so a singl…

Thinking about this some more… :slight_smile: It could be that the 1 second delay is confusing, and would result users to press the button a second time. If this is the case, you could also opt for the following: On long press, do what is needed for a long press On the short press, don’t take…

I aimed for a simplified solution but it looks indeed I need to build more logic in the flow. Thanks for all the advise.

Thanks to your suggestions and some more overthinking, I figured it out. I used variables for press and long press Long press action works on press, short press action works on release. Short press now toggles lights on/off Long press dims up or down between 20% and 100% Probably this flow can …

Just a note: with unknown buttons I usually learn which events do they send and when by setting a up flow to send me a message to Telegram with the event name. Or an action per event to send corresponding message.

1 button with more functions, solved

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Wim_Post March 8, 2026, 9:08am 2

This part runs only once per long push. You seem to think the trigger repeats itself as long as it hold.

Try this:

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1 button with more functions, solved

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