Potentiometer to control lights

I want to put an LED light strips behind my PC monitor. I want the ability to turn them on and off as well as control brightness via Home Assistant and a physical control of some sort that will sit on my desk below the monitor.

This video (link below) shows using a potentiometer and that appears to work well. BUT don’t potentiometers have a limited range?

What I’m getting at is what happens if the lights are dimmed via home assistant and I later want to make the lights brighter using the physical knob? If the knob is already at its maximum, am I stuck needing to use HA?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qj1jJAam-8&t=1130s

Edit: I also asked this question over on the discord channel and was informed that if you use a potentiometer, that will be the ONLY WAY to control brightness. But I did find that there is a usermod to enable the use of a rotary encoder.

https://gist.github.com/andyshinn/8cab0716aae14e5f2e39ea9c855c2bb8/revisions

I went through pretty much the same thing. Use the rotary encoder…