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Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep
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The fact that dimming a room turns ON all the lights in the room is actually wild
Dimming is just light.room: turn on > XX% so it makes sense that it would turn on all lights assigned to that specific entity. I use Adaptive Brightness so that I don't have to fiddle with dimming lights manually. The sun does that for me.
I know how it works, I'm just saying it's unintuitive. It's not how any other smart home system works.
I use adaptive brightness too, actually. But nearly every time I'm manually adjusting a room's existing brightness, I don't want every single unpowered devices to turn on, too.
You could create a separate light group for the ones you typically do have on at those times and just use that when you want to dim the room lights
What would you expect it to do? I would think you're telling it to set all lights to whatever level...
I would expect it to behave like all other smart home systems, or like a physical dimmer switch/power switch.