Show me your Home Assistant CBUS+MQTT .yaml files

I'm continuing on my journey to move to Home Assistant and MQTT, but I've not yet worked out how to control dimming. I'm using HA on a Pi 4, and cgate with cgateweb on another Pi. Toolkit can talk to cgate fine.

I can read and write regular on off switches, or even a dim channel as if it was a switch
I can detect changes to a dimmer
I cannot write changes out to a dimmer
On a dimmer, I can try to turn it off in HA, but then within a second or so it turns itself off

What are folks here using for their .yaml config for dimming? Here's mine, and I'm using MQTT explorer to track changes.

This works. I can detect changes, and I can write out changes.

Code:

  - platform: mqtt
    name: 'MQ EnSuite Light'
    state_topic: 'cbus/read/254/56/2/state'
    command_topic: 'cbus/write/254/56/2/switch'
    payload_on: 'ON'
    payload_off: 'OFF'
    unique_id: mq_ensuite_ceilinglight

This does not work as described above. I've also tried adding payload_on: 'ON'

Code:

  - platform: mqtt
    name: 'mq Den Lights'
    state_topic: 'cbus/read/254/56/0/state'
    command_topic: 'cbus/write/254/56/0/switch'
    brightness_state_topic: 'cbus/read/254/56/0/level'
    brightness_command_topic: 'cbus/write/254/56/0/ramp'
    payload_off: 'OFF'
    on_command_type: 'brightness'
    unique_id: mq_den_ceiling

 

Found the solution, all working. It needed brightness_scale to work.

Code:

  - platform: mqtt
    name: "mq Den Lights"
    state_topic: "cbus/read/254/56/0/state"
    command_topic: "cbus/write/254/56/0/switch"
    brightness_state_topic: "cbus/read/254/56/0/level"
    brightness_command_topic: "cbus/write/254/56/0/ramp"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    on_command_type: "brightness"
    unique_id: mq_den_ceiling
    brightness_scale: "100" 

 

My 'How To' here https://www.cbusforums.com/threads/...eb-mqtt-home-assistant-and-home-bridge.10746/