Macros and brightness option

Issues
1

Hi!

I found some strange behaviour of brightness option using macros and HTTP API.

I have rest command in HA calling macros #1 with the following url:
http://192.168.1.60/win&M=1

In WLED web UI I have macros #1 with the following options to call preset 1 and set brightness to 255:
PL=1&A=255

The issue is that brightness doesn’t change. Brightness saved in preset is also 255. If light is dimmed preset changes to 1 but brightness doesn’t switch to 255 and stays the same as before calling macros #1.

Is this a bug or feature? :slight_smile: I’m using WLED version 0.9.0-b2 (2 weeks ago compiled in Arduino IDE from the github’s source).

Thanks!

2

When using the web / mobile WLED interface, if you run macro #1, does it function correctly?
If you select something other than preset #1, then select preset #1, does it set according to that preset?
If your HA call were to do something like this, would that resolve the problem:
http://192.168.1.60/win&A=255&PL=1
I only ask because sometimes high WAF has nothing at all to doing it “the right way”, nor “understanding why it does not work”.

3

Huh, I need to look into that.
By default the brightness of the preset is not applied, but the A=255 part should work.

You can try A=255&PL=1&PA=1, that will apply the 255 brightness from the preset!

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Hi @Apapra, the problem is that the PL=1 part of the marco is processed later that the A=255 part.
The position in the macro doesn’t matter. To solve this you need to

  1. load the preset 1
  2. set the brightness to 255
  3. save it as preset 1 again
  4. change the macro to load the preset only: PL=1

@Aircoookie: a “new feature” would be to interate through all commands in the order of apperance instead of only using indexOf() for knowing the existance of the command.

5

Thanks to all who answered!

the problem is that the PL=1 part of the marco is processed later that the A=255 part.

Thanks, now it’s clear why I can’t change the brightness in macros. It would be nice to override preset settings using API commands in macros.