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alex88 71
I bought a couple of RGBW 2 modules to test out and have come across a number of "features" that I'm hoping someone can confirm:
1. There appears to be no option for momentary switch plus rainbow mode form a single wall switch
Where I have RGBW strips I guess I can connect to IN4 (by setting parm 150 to HSB and White mode) and control only the white channel from the wall switch and then control colours from Alexa, scenes or the BUI / Mobile interface.
2. The way the RGBW 2 seems to work, when turning them on/off, is different to the RGB.
You can change the colour value of the R, G, B and W channels but unless you ALSO change the value of the brightness channel (ie the value of the module itself), nothing happens, so presumably to turn a light on to a specific brightness you need to set the value and the colour (RGB or W). If you leave the value (brightness) set at a specific value, which I never do, then you could just toggle a single colour channel to turn the light on/off ie control the light through a single parameter.
With the RGBW 1 module it was much easier. You just set the device to remember the last colour and then changed the value ie you could treat the RGBW module as Dimmer or Switch/Relay by turning it on/off with a specific brightness value or 0 to set to off.
Now it requires a minimum of two parms to be sent each time to turn a light on to a specific colour and brightness.
The end result, an update to all LUA lighting code is required!
3. Custom program feature is disabled. I have read on the forum that this is being resolved....
4. Inclusion / exclusion of device by triple click from wall switch no longer works. This took me far to long to work out. Now you have to triple click on the little button on the device itself.
There is a new QR code option, but presumably only for the HC3 and presumably this only for inclusion, so the day that you decide to upgrade to a new box and if you decide to do a clean build you'll need to remove all your wall switch covers to access the button on the device... why did you do this Fibaro?? @A.Socha?
So, I guess to get onto the 500 chipset we have to take two steps forward and in my case it feels like 3 steps backwards, as I am not going to rip holes in walls to add extra switches to control RGBW lights the way I could with the FIbaro RGBW 1 module. Of course this is not an issue for a new installation, however it's not much fun for existing long standing customers like me.
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