Chosen color doesn't match light color (calibration? cheap LEDs?)
Posted: Friday 18 August 2017 23:24
Hello!
Something's been bugging me since I first set up Domoticz with my lights: I tend to be rather picky about the exact color I want the light to have. Now when selecting a color (be it via HomeKit/homebridge or Domoticz directly), the color I choose on screen doesn't really match the one I see on the wall. For example yellow tends to be way too green and orange only becomes really orange when I'm deep in the red area on-screen. (Hmm. I should Investigate whether I see a pattern here.)
I observe this mostly with the Fibaro RGBW controller that has rather cheap LED strips attached. Another Aeotec LED bulb is more or less color accurate, so I wouldn't have a bad conscience from blaming the LED hardware.
Has anyone ever seen this before? I'm mostly wondering if buying better LEDs is worthwhile; teaching Domoticz some color calibration would probably be one of the bigger projects with questionable return on investment. (And I'm not very familiar with the source yet...)
Something's been bugging me since I first set up Domoticz with my lights: I tend to be rather picky about the exact color I want the light to have. Now when selecting a color (be it via HomeKit/homebridge or Domoticz directly), the color I choose on screen doesn't really match the one I see on the wall. For example yellow tends to be way too green and orange only becomes really orange when I'm deep in the red area on-screen. (Hmm. I should Investigate whether I see a pattern here.)
I observe this mostly with the Fibaro RGBW controller that has rather cheap LED strips attached. Another Aeotec LED bulb is more or less color accurate, so I wouldn't have a bad conscience from blaming the LED hardware.
Has anyone ever seen this before? I'm mostly wondering if buying better LEDs is worthwhile; teaching Domoticz some color calibration would probably be one of the bigger projects with questionable return on investment. (And I'm not very familiar with the source yet...)