Looking to install new lights in the lounge (a weird shaped attic conversion, will have many zones. Looking at doing this with initially RGBWW tape and possibly augmented with home made RGBWW panels.
So I’d like a
24V LED controller that can do RGBWW
Local remote, RF based, to simplify wiring
Option for Home Assistant to control
But the local control MUST be direct - if HA is down, lights still need to work.
Are there any other options that folk know of that tick all these boxes?
The next nearest might be Shelly - they have a DIN mount RGBWW controller now. But I would have to completely home brew a Remote to talk to a number of Shelly controllers. That’s not necessarily a problem and I sort of feel more comfortable with the Shellys as they support so many standard protocols.
Just tossing in WLED in the mix here.
It’s ESP based and if I remember correctly has an fallback WIFI you can connect to if you need to make changes when HA is down.
Not great. But could be an option.
Thanks - an interesting idea. I have used WLED for Xmas lights. And it does support ESP-NOW - a non standard WiFi “remote” protocol amongst other ways that it might be possible to home brew a wall switch “remote”.
It has one positive - it’s possible to loop vast numbers of LEDs together with 3 wires and virtually zone them. And HA does work with it.
I don’t think I’ve seen any RGBWW tapes that work with it, but there are RGBW that do.
As a heavy user of MiLight / Miboxxer LED I want to support the choice for it. They have many different controllers. Own 2,4 GHz system - which can be controlled with the sidoh ESP solution, they have Zigbee controllers too.
The main reason I advocate for it is the reliability. I’m running around 20 bulbs and 4 24V LED strips RGBCCT from them, all more, than 4 years now, not a single one has failed. The quality is very good for the money.
Thank you. They do have a very extensive selection of products.
If they went full Shelly and supported MQTT and other stuff, I would not hesitate.
However, the fact they’ve started going into Matter is interesting - I’ve never used this so I don’t know what to expect, but it claims interoperability.
And failing that, a reverse engineered proprietary RF protocol with an open source gateway is quite acceptable - HA here is a 2nd class citizen - it’s a nice to have - the primary concern is that the lights “just work” off a wall panel.
