RGWB Led Strip with remote control?

[M4T VW 2]

Hello all

 

I have a fibaro RGBW setup in my house and it works great. However i have another application that needs something similar but ideally requires a remote to change colours and also start scenes.

Basically this will be put round a wooden cabin outside. I dont want to use a phone to change colours or scenes etc so a basic remote is required that i can change the colour with and also start/stop fibaro scenes. Does anyone know of anything that will work? I'm open to any manufacturer as long as it works with the HC2.

 

Cheers

Mat

[AutoFrank 372]

4 hours ago, M4T VW said:

so a basic remote is required that i can change the colour

 

Hi @M4T VW

You could use the aeotec minimote running as a secondary controller ( approx €50)

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It works well with the HC and with a bit of lua you can use it to run scenes or press vd buttons

It has 4 buttons with 2 press events (single press and press + hold ) so you can drive 8 actions

I have a few and they are fast to respond for me (I use them to control sonos players on the bedrooms) 

It has a rechargeable batters (through a mini usb port) and estimates would seem to suggest 3-6 months depending on use

 

The lua code to control actions is below

 

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[M4T VW 2]

Thanks for the reply!

It looks like a good idea.

 

Looking into it, The fibaro keyfob might be a better option as it has up to 30 buttons. (Single click, double, triple etc) This means i could map buttons to change colours.

Is that possible in the coding to mix colours with buttons so you would hold one button for R and it turns the red channel up, and one for B (blue) etc?

 

Also, as i'm going to be quite far away from the HC2, does either of these remotes use the mesh network created by the HC2?  Would i have any problems with that?

 

Cheers

Mat

[AutoFrank 372]

29 minutes ago, M4T VW said:

Looking into it, The fibaro keyfob might be a better option as it has up to 30 buttons. (Single click, double, triple etc) This means i could map buttons to change colours.

Is that possible in the coding to mix colours with buttons so you would hold one button for R and it turns the red channel up, and one for B (blue) etc?

 

I'm sure some of this may be possible but i have no experience with the keyfob

Its worth mentioning if you will recall the actions of all button combinations or would it be better to stay with a smaller number of combinations that are useful to you

30 minutes ago, M4T VW said:

Also, as i'm going to be quite far away from the HC2, does either of these remotes use the mesh network created by the HC2?  Would i have any problems with that?

 

All zwave devices will utilise the "mesh" to track back top the HC2 but this may impact response time

Could you indicate how far from the HC2 the remote/keyfob device will be and if other powered zwave devices will be close to where you are using the remote/keyfob device

Edited November 1, 2017 by AutoFrank

[morpheus75 77]

hi

the keyfob will work and as mentioned you will then need to remember what each button corresponds to.

regarding trying to increase the 'RED' channel or other channels by pressing a button i have not tried myself so dont know if that is possible.

could be a little project to look into when i get a chance but definitely you can add the following line to the button:

 

fibaro:call(RGBWID, "setColor", "R","G","B","W")

 

RGBWID - ID OF DEVICE

R,G,B,W = VALUE OF THE COLOUR RANGE IS 0 TO 255

 

have a look at my other thread for LUA scene...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[M4T VW 2]

Excellent, thanks guys. I'm going to order one and try it out. I can use it for other things if it doesnt work.

(I wonder if it's waterproof to use it in the hot-tub haha)

[petergebruers 1,268]

1 hour ago, M4T VW said:

Excellent, thanks guys. I'm going to order one and try it out. I can use it for other things if it doesnt work.

(I wonder if it's waterproof to use it in the hot-tub haha)

 

Can I recommend this topic?

 

 

[M4T VW 2]

17 minutes ago, petergebruers said:

 

Can I recommend this topic?

 

Many thanks! It looks good.

 

Could you tell me if you think it's possible to assign the hold button feature to map to an RGBW channel?

[petergebruers 1,268]

I do not know how well it behaves with an RGBW. Theoretically, you can have 3 pairs of buttons which control a dimmer. Never tried. All my RGBW setups cycle through a few favorite programs.