RGB Stripe with Fibaro RGBW controller
Posted: Monday 14 November 2016 18:19
Hello everybody,
I've bought a fairly popular RGB LED stripe on Amazon and connected the wires for RGB to the corresponding outlets of the Fibaro RGBW Dimmer (Domoticz recognized FIBARO System FGRGBWM441 RGBW Controller). So there's no wire to the W outlet for white color. Currently this leads to the situation that when I want to create white light (which worked via the remote control of the stripe by mixing the three colors), the stripe turns off. This is expected, since the channel for white is not used.
The manual states that in FIbaro's smart home software one should set the dimmer as RGB (or RGBW if one has that stripe) and then it would work appropriately. In Domoticz I haven't found this option, however, and my only try was to set parameter 14 to 1110 hex (4968 dec) without luck.
I am actually not sure, whether Domoticz should "translate" white into the three RGB colors and tell the dimmer about the right code or whether the dimmer itself has an RGB mode.
Any help and suggestions of how to have a RGB stripe work with the RGBW dimmer would be welcome.
Not to forget: I am running the latest beta of Domoticz on a Debian Linux system (x86_64).
I've bought a fairly popular RGB LED stripe on Amazon and connected the wires for RGB to the corresponding outlets of the Fibaro RGBW Dimmer (Domoticz recognized FIBARO System FGRGBWM441 RGBW Controller). So there's no wire to the W outlet for white color. Currently this leads to the situation that when I want to create white light (which worked via the remote control of the stripe by mixing the three colors), the stripe turns off. This is expected, since the channel for white is not used.
The manual states that in FIbaro's smart home software one should set the dimmer as RGB (or RGBW if one has that stripe) and then it would work appropriately. In Domoticz I haven't found this option, however, and my only try was to set parameter 14 to 1110 hex (4968 dec) without luck.
I am actually not sure, whether Domoticz should "translate" white into the three RGB colors and tell the dimmer about the right code or whether the dimmer itself has an RGB mode.
Any help and suggestions of how to have a RGB stripe work with the RGBW dimmer would be welcome.
Not to forget: I am running the latest beta of Domoticz on a Debian Linux system (x86_64).