Negative values for realtive changes

[jabirf1]

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

[sipriyadarshi · Accepted solution]

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. 

[ActuallyAndy]

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

[jabirf1]

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.

[-David-]

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