I've got a lot of places in my home where I use motion detectors (or zone motion detectors) to turn on and off lights as people move through the house. This is primarily in stairwells, the pantry, places that aren't in constant use.
So far I've been using simple automations, but I end up with 3 simple automations for each area; 1 SA turns on the light at 100% during sunrise to sunset; 1 SA turns on the lights at 25% during sunset to sunrise and 1 SA turns off the light when the zone goes inactive.
This seems inelegant and creates a /lot/ of automations.
I've tried to figure out how to use modes to accomplish this. I have day and night mode being set automatically and I've fired off actions but it appears that you can't preset the brightness without turning the light on.
Is there a more efficient way to accomplish this? Is there a way to use mode to control the max brightness of a light?