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Does the brightness actually change, either for a moment or correctly?

It looks like we set the brightness and then turn it on. Best guess - when your device gets the "turn it on" command it's changing the brightness to 100%....

Start of by getting the logs for aiohomekit. Verify that you see a PUT when you make a change. You should see it write to a pair of numbers -...

(You'll also need to figure out how to edit files in the ha container yourself)

There's an existing issue for that one. Don't have the number to hand, but it's related to a Pr back in July iirc. The author was looking into it but...

Do you have any other (non Bluetooth) devices with homekit_controller that are working? If this is the beta, my guess is it's the python upgrade. But @bdraco has a lot...

Which ones of those are WiFi/Ethernet?

I've never seen a homekit_controller bug that was fixed be re-doing the setup, and sometimes we just end up with 2 bugs to fix 😆

Is the ip address correct?

And you have censored the port, but can you test it's open? curl --verbose http://ip:port Should do it