Actual DIM level vs displayed level

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So my dimmers I got work great on my LED bulbs, but only about 20-60% is useable with anything over 60% being full on. Not sure about anyone else but this really annoys me :slight_smile:

Has anyone attempted to solve this within a driver? In one I used when the light was set to 99% it would convert that to show 100% but I believe it was setting the actual dimmer to 99% still as that is its max setting. So I am thinking with some formulas that I have yet to work out, I could take the 0-100% range being shown and then convert that to a tighter range (user specified) that actually gets sent to the dimmer.

Does this seem possible? Anyone know of examples where this has been done?

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Inovelli has an option to set the max and min values in their red series dimmer drivers. They do exactly what you describe and work very well.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InovelliUSA/Hubitat/master/Drivers/inovelli-dimmer-red-series-lzw31-sn.src/inovelli-dimmer-red-series-lzw31-sn.groovy

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Thanks I will check it out for an example, thats what I was hoping for in case I get stuck. Seems like it should be possible since the Zooz driver I use (I just released yesterday) already "tricks" it into showing 100% instead of 99%

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