Led RGB Strip with Remote Wireless

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For those who are looking for a new challenge, you can buy this item

http://www.banggood.com/12V-Touch-Dimmable-Remote-Wireless-RF-Controller-For-Led-RGB-Strip-p-960983.html
and create a pimatic plugin and a RFcontrol protocol.

I personally didn’t by this item due to the very bad soundtrack quality of their video on youtube (pls remove the +20db boost)

About banggout it’s generally a good place to find hardware things needed for your pimatic home.

Cheaper version (10€ delivered at home) http://www.banggood.com/18A-Touch-Dimmable-Remote-Wireless-RF-Controller-For-Led-RGB-Strip-p-959726.html

But i think a wifi model is much better (less 433 MHz traffic and collision). Something like http://www.banggood.com/Wifi-LED-RGB-Controller-For-LED-RGB-Strip-For-Iphone-Ipad-Android-p-928121.html but i don’t want to be forced to connect to another wifi network to change LED colors…

the wifi version is already in development!
have a look here : pimatic/pimatic#348

i am already using this with pimatic to switch on a led stripe behind my tv (as mood light). at the above issue 348 are my code examples. works pretty good, but is just a workaround unless a plugin has been developed.

when you buy it, you’ll have to be sure to get the newer firmware version 4.02.11T.15 . (i got mine from amazon http://www.amazon.de/NEUER-STRIPS-CONTROLLER-iPhone-Android/dp/B00G55329A/). then you do not have to change your wifi network to switch colours!
That has been at the first version, there the firmware was crap!

@leader21 1 question are you using a specific wifi network then or did you manage to connect to your usual network wifi?

@Yves911
no special network! it’s connected to your wifi router and gets an ip over dhcp. you are using it as a normal wifi device.
the led device itself has an own wlan network with it’s own SSID so it could be used as access point. So be sure to change the password to this when you’re using it the first time.
you can reach a setup over the browser to select the necessary options.

have a look here

and

@leader21 thanks for the info, it will go on my wish list

@Yves911
yes go for it i like it!!

if you want to have an impression, this is how it looks like in reality (little video)

Video LED-Stripe-Device as mood light behind TV

@leader21 thanks looks nice, i don’t want to add this behind my TV, i was more thinking to an ambient light but i don’t know if it will bright enough (and ambient/mood light need to offer a large spectrum of colors)
something like :

the led stripe device i use offers a range of all colours. it was just too easy to use red green and blue my coding skills end there unfortunately. the wlan led device can also change colours and can be controlled via mobile app etc. but i guess you’ve seen this already.

well this philips hue is an intresting thing too, but very expensive.
guess with some coding skills someone can create a plugin for that too.
there are some libraries on git for that, eg. https://github.com/peter-murray/node-hue-api

@Yves911
i bought this controller

id on remote is 36567
this is my log:

on
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off
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bright-
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bright+
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mode+
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mode-
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red
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green
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blue
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@lcf_m I didn’t buy this hardware and is now more looking for a solution based on an esp8266.
Do you see some “LED” messages in pimatic when you press buttons?

@Yves911 no, there are no protocols in the log, I think we need a new protocol

debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 352, 724, 4648 ] 011001010101010101010101011010011001010101101001011010101001011112
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: “RF receive 352 724 4648 0 0 0 0 0 011001010101010101010101011010011001010101101001011010101001011112”

@Icesory is our specialist

@Icesory, can you help?

@Yves911 @Icesory

I wrote the code but I can not yet check, because I not found in the town of RGB ribbon

http://pastebin.com/L2y0xd9a

how i can add color picker to page with with maximum values of 32?

@lcf_m Honestly, I would sell this piece of hardware and get a Wifi370 for 20-25 Euros instead. There is is a ready-to-use pimatic plugin for this - http://pimatic.org/plugins/pimatic-led-light/

I’m looking for a rgb led controller that works great with Pimatic. Which one is the best? It needs to be able to dim 20m of rgb led strips.

@sweebee
question is how much amps do you need ? there could be a restriction.
the wifi370 is an RGB controller and has 4A for each channel.
i’m using it with 5m RGB strip and am very satisfied! also the pimatic-led plugin works with it, have a a look here: http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/332/plugin-for-wifi-controlled-led-light-iwy-light
the good thing about it is, that it’s using a wifi connection.
I got mine from Amazon for approx. 27 Euro. They call it LW12 but it’s the Wifi370 device
it’s not cheap, i know, but the device is reliable, works properly and switches almost immediately.
there have been some issues regarding wrong/older firmware. therefore i bought mine at amazon, if the device would have had the older firmware i was able to return it without trouble. but fortunately i got the correct one ^^

@sweebee I built one myself with an arduino nano. With this setup you can set your own colours and fades and so on…
I even included a music control