Lights always power on at 100% but should power on at most recent load level

[loopj]

Lights always power on at 100% but should power on at most recent load level

[loopj]

Hey @ddetton thanks for the feedback!

This is something I considered when initially writing the integration, and it looks like it is about 50/50 on if lighting integrations default to 100% or default to the last known state - there seems to be no convention or recommendation from HA.

One quirk of defaulting to the last known state, is that I couldn't find any exposed Vantage command interface for "turn on to last level". You must always specify a load level, eg LOAD 118 100.0.

One way around this would be to always track the last known level in memory in Home Assistant, but this would mean when restarting Home Assistant (eg. for an upgrade) we would lose these cached levels. Given the complexity of tracking/storing the cached levels, I opted to have "turn on" commands default to 100%.

I'm open to alternative approaches here, as I may have missed something!