Set Dimmer without turning on light

[Ryan780]

Some of the dimmers that support this is the GE Motion In-wall dimmer and the Leviton In-wall dimmer. Both have a "default level" which is used when the physical on paddle is pressed. In the case of the Leviton, there is a custom driver that exposes that functionality to the software so it can be changed via a rule. Supposed Zooz is adding this to the next version of their firmware as well.

Dimmer switch vary by time question

We'll add this function to the dimmers and will post here once the OTA file is available. In the meantime, you could probably go around it by creating a scene with a single tap that would set the dimmer to set brightness and limit it to a given time of day.