Philips Hue Wall Switch Module Dimming

[Peter_Kawa]

Longpressing buttons to perform smooth dimming is not in the minds of the Homey creators.
It’s odd though, while the KaKu/CoCo/Trust stuff can do ‘press button & dim up/down’ tricks since 1990
But it is possible to build a hold & dim-like functionality:

[HOWTO][PRO] Dim lights with buttons using transitions

This topic is to explain how you can use long press/release with a button to dim lights. Note that if you use z-wave associations you do not need this tutorial, and dimming will be smoother. But for all other cases, this will do the trick. For this tutorial I implemented one-button dimming, where the lights dim up and down until the button is released. The simpeler version: dim up with one button, dim down with another can be created using the same building blocks with ease if you get this one. …