How to dim a light?

[acaonweb]

I would like to fade out a light when I push a button, so the button is the trigger.
I’d like to set the level to 0% in a short but defined amount of time for example 3seconds

How can realize that with dzevents?
My lights are Yeelight so they support .dimTo() and my dzevents is 2.2.0

Thanks in advance
Fabrizio

[waaren]

With current version of dzVents ( 2.4.5 ) you can dim using only native dzVents code with steps of 1 second using the afterSec() method. Look here for an example. So if you want to do it in 3 seconds then it would not go very smoothly. As far as I understand there is no support yet for user defined smoothness in the domoticz code for the Yeelight hardware (Yeelight.cpp) . If you could work out what the http string should be, It must be possible to call the Yeelight bulb with dzVents openURL.

Look for a solution with os.execute (described in the wiki) Here

Or create a Python script using the package described here and call that from a device's off and/or on action

Calling the Yeelight python script from a virtual device

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you could do whatever action is possible with your yeelight bulbs.

python code to dim to zero in 15 seconds.. // Script needs Yeelight module; install with ==>> pip install Yeelight

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#!/usr/bin/python
from yeelight import discover_bulbs
from yeelight import Bulb

bulb = Bulb("nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn", effect="smooth", duration=15000) # 15 seconds
bulb.turn_off()

[acaonweb]

thanx for your answer
cool, very nice the python way
there is a way to execute python script in dzvents?

[waaren]

Yes but you will have to use the os.execute command

[acaonweb]

many thanx!!!