How can I test 'brightness' if I don't have a fan with lights?

[jacob]

Here’s my recent response to a similar request:

Dummy devices w/ no remote

That’d work. Here’s a way to get a full remote panel with a single request. (This is what our mobile apps use to build a full panel) POST to devices the body {"template": <template_name>, "name": <whatever_you_want>, "properties": {"addr": "1111", "bps": 3000, "zero_gap": 30, "freq": 433400}} This builds a device (and its commands) from a script on the Bond. Here is a spread of commonly-seen template names: "A1": one light, 3 speeds, hold-to-dim, reverse "A1a": two-lighted version of A1 "R…

Here’re four templates for the four dimming “schemes”:

• A1: single light, dimmer cycles between up and down, the action is named StartDimmer (a continuous transmission until you send the Stop action, or timeout at 30 seconds)
• A1a: double-light version of A1, it has individual dimmers so we’ve gone with StartUpLightDimmer and StartDownLightDimmer (continuous like A1)
• RCF98v2: has directional dimmers. Similar to A1-style dimmer, but increases to max brightness with one signal and decreases to min brightness with another: StartIncreasingBrightness and StartDecreasingBrightness (continuous like A1)
• RCF118: the only one of these with the brightness state. You can directly SetBrightness with an argument or Increase/DecreaseBrightness with an argument. This particular remote script has a minimum brightness of 20, and a max of 100.

The first and the last styles are by far the most common.