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Alexa Scene Dimming quirky

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With Alexa+, if I say dim or brighten an Insteon scene it works. If I say "Alexa, Set scene to 49%" it turns it to 0% and if I say "Alexa, set scene to 50%" it turns it to 100%. That seems like odd being that both dim and brighten allow me to get to in between levels, I just can't go directly to the brightness I want. Setting levels directly works with Hue and I swore it used to work with EISY/Insteon scenes.

I ran across the same thing a year or two ago. I believe what I changed the designation of the spoken command to device instead of scene or scene instead of device and that room care of it. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but it's worth a shot.

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On 4/12/2026 at 6:28 AM, lgilsenberg said:

I ran across the same thing a year or two ago. I believe what I changed the designation of the spoken command to device instead of scene or scene instead of device and that room care of it. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but it's worth a shot.

To get the brighten/dim to work, I already have the alexa category set to "device/light", setting the category to "scene" seems to ignore everything but on/off. Set room to 50% still gets me 100%. Weird and annoying.

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