# Hue Dimmer long press button? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Tags:** homey-pro\ **Created:** [October 19, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-dimmer-long-press-button/144302 "2025-10-19T21:04:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eRkEuRpUrWuRg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/erkeurpurwurg/32/120728_2.png) [@eRkEuRpUrWuRg](https://community.homey.app/u/eRkEuRpUrWuRg)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-dimmer-long-press-button/144302/1 "2025-10-19T21:04:11Z")
Hello, I have Hue Bridge with Dimmer Switch connected (all set up before I got Homey so I want to keep most things in the Hue app for now). However I want to add “long press” on the Power button in a flow in Homey Pro (the “short press” is used for other things in the Hue app), but the only flow card I have is “power button pressed”, no long press (or short for that matter, only press), no dim up/down, noe Hue/Scene-button. Is this correct? I see there are some posts about this but see no final answer, seems like I can get access to more functions by connecting the dimmer switch directly to Homey Pro? The 4-button dimmer switch could be very useful in my scenario but i only get to play with one switch, and only short press… In practice it has 8 buttons if you add short/long press to all of them. Any advice from you guys? 🙂 It is tempting to buy another switch to do what I want but it seems very stupid when all I need is abilty to trigger an event from long press on the switch I already have. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-dimmer-long-press-button/144302/2 "2025-10-19T21:51:14Z")
> [@eRkEuRpUrWuRg](#): > > but the only flow card I have is “power button pressed” This flow card should be available for the Dimmer switch; it let’s you select the preferred button: ![Screenshot_20251019_234920_Chrome](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/f/e/fe52f30160acb2e83bdbfa9232d8716d7cf51fc7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![eRkEuRpUrWuRg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/erkeurpurwurg/32/120728_2.png) [@eRkEuRpUrWuRg](https://community.homey.app/u/eRkEuRpUrWuRg)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-dimmer-long-press-button/144302/3 "2025-10-20T06:19:08Z")
Thank you! Now we have 4 buttons, however no long press ☹ And as long as the dim-switch is active in the Hue-App also dim up/down are not customizable (fixed to dim up/down). Is there any function in the flow chart that let you add condition “hold button for 2 seconds” or something? I only find delay which doesn’t help in this case. I am super greatful for all help, awesome! 😎 ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_Henderson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/andy_henderson/32/80642_2.png) [@Andy\_Henderson](https://community.homey.app/u/Andy_Henderson)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-dimmer-long-press-button/144302/4 "2025-10-20T07:54:07Z")
[This post explains](https://community.homey.app/t/getting-a-flic-button-to-do-more-than-three-things/102648) how I use a single Flic button to execute multiple actions from a single press. You might be able to use and expand on that technique. Andy ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-dimmer-long-press-button/144302/5 "2025-10-20T12:58:26Z")
Like Andy wrote, if it ain’t there, we have to create it 😉 I’ve looked at the specs of the dimmer switch, it doesn’t seem to have a longpress function? In that case it also won’t be available in the “button” part of the trigger card. That probably is the same as the physical buttons: on/off/dim+/dim- ---
**Author:** ![Suffering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/suffering/32/121229_2.png) [@Suffering](https://community.homey.app/u/Suffering)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-dimmer-long-press-button/144302/6 "2025-11-23T14:34:58Z")
I would also love to ask you, if there would be a possibility to add this feature. I recently bought this Hue Dial and I would like to add more functions for a long press card. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Dutchbird](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dutchbird/32/151232_2.png) [@Dutchbird](https://community.homey.app/u/Dutchbird)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-dimmer-long-press-button/144302/7 "2026-01-14T16:26:55Z")
I am also missing the long-press functionality for the dimmer switch. Curious why it’s not available because it is a standard Hue functionality. ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-dimmer-long-press-button/144302/8 "2026-01-14T16:43:09Z")
In the Hue mobile app, I don’t see long press events (I held the button but it just says “Button pressed“): ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/4/3456d5a1cacbdadb419781d4974df59d4f1598e2.jpeg) Maybe this is the reason?