topic Re: Negative values for realtive changes in Smart Home Developer Forum

Negative values for realtive changes

jabirf1 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:49:18 GMT

Hi, I have scripted an automation to make my fish bowl light decrease in relative brightness dependant on the status of another device. However, the automation seems to ignore the negative (-) sign and hence, cause the light to brighten. My script is below. How do i make the automation consider the value as negative?

actions:

- type: device.command.BrightnessRelative

brightnessRelativePercent: -1

devices: Fish Bowl Light - Aquarium

Re: Negative values for realtive changes

sipriyadarshi — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:43:21 GMT

Hello @jabirf1 ,

Thank you for reaching out to us with your request. We were able to reproduce your issue at our end and I would recommend submitting a feedback from the Automation Script Editor. Also, please include a screenshot of the editor that shows the script.

You can also open a feature request in this regard on the public issue tracker.

Re: Negative values for realtive changes

ActuallyAndy — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 05:00:25 GMT

Is there any status on this bug? I’m experiencing the same issue.

Re: Negative values for realtive changes

jabirf1 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:01:27 GMT

The status remains same. Tech support just informed me that it is not possible to have a dimming function with the relative brightness command. As you mentioned, it seems to be a bug more than anything else, and it should an easy straight forward fix, as it clearly works well for positive integers, and only the bug causing the code to ignore (-) sign needs to be address. But, they do not even seem to be interested in looking into it.

Re: Negative values for realtive changes

-David- — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:44:04 GMT

Yes, this issue is of interest for me as well.