Slider limits or ways to stop dimmer at 1%

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I have a few fibaro dimmer 2 and when the dimmer is slid to the bottom the lights turn off. This makes it particularly hard to set 1% dimmer as one slide too far and the lights turn off.

I would prefer the dimmer to have a limit so the light can't be turned off by the dimming part, and just use the switch part of the tile to turn the light off.

I was hoping that when the slider was slid to 0% that I could use rules to set the dimmer back to 1% so the light stayed on when the dimmer was slid to the bottom (perhaps a brief moment of light off before it came back onto 1%). But.. when the slider shows 0%, the fibaro device records 1% and OFF.

Any thoughts on how to set a rule to recognise when the light is switched off by the slider and act on that? Setting the dimmer ot 1% and turning the light off by the switch component seems the same result in the device page as sliding to 0% so the two don't seem distinguishable (the slider action I didn't want turning off but the switch action I did).

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I don't have any solution, but I feel the same way. It'd be great if there was an option to make the dimmer sliders on the dashboards only go between 1 and 100%. Or not even be an option, that should just be the way it works by default. In the Phillips Hue app, that's the way the dimmer sliders work.

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You could try GitHub - joelwetzel/Hubitat-Dimmer-Minimums: Some dimmable lights (such as some LEDs) will dim to very low levels, but will not initially turn on at those levels. For example, an LED that can be dimmed to 1%, but must be at 5% or more to turn on from off. This app enforces that minimum dimming level for dimmers/lights that don't have their own minimum brightness settings, to ensure fast and accurate startup.
It works well for me, but YMMV. You may need to set to 2%.

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That app only works for dimmer levels greater than 0.

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He said when it shuts off it shows 1% for the device. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding.

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No, he said...

The bottom of the slider is 0, not 1. He wants the bottom of the slider to be 1 instead of 0.

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I was referring to this. I don’t have that particular device, but it worked with my zigbee in wall dimmers that dim to zero. They would still show on at zero though. They really should only go to 1%. It is kind of a pain.

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Yes...but the device is still off. Which this app will not help with. The device also has to be on. The point is, the Fibaro turned off because the commanded value was zero. It just doesn't report a dimmer level of 0. It only reports 1-99. But commanding a zero, which is possible from the dashboard, turns off the device.

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Thanks. I didn't realize that they weren’t reporting zero, and wondered what was going on with the 1%. Makes sense now.