In this video I’ll show you how to use Home Assistant and Node Red to control dimming of a Zigbee controlled light from a Zigbee Multi remote from IKEA (Tradfri).

You’ll see how to toggle on and off, Dim up and Dim down in steps of 50 on a single click and how to dim up/down whilst holding until the button is released.

We use a function node, switch node, Change state node, current state nodes and a trigger.

Sequence from this video:

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