Has anyone used these? Dimmer/tunable white LED controller with manual controls

Hardware
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I have been beating my head against a wall trying to figure out a way to get some dimmable/tunable white LED strips in my kitchen that offers local manual control and also home assistant control. I am not considering the options that have weird remote controls. I really want a physical switch that can mount in standard switch box and look good.

THEN - I found this seemingly perfect system tonight:

The system looks absolutely perfect. Two problems though:

  1. I cannot find anyone that has gotten these to work with home assistant
  2. I cannot really find anyone who has used these period. They are only sold on a single vendor’s website. The company has posted a few youtube videos but I cannot find any independent reviews.

Anyone have any experience with these? I want them to work so bad. So, so bad.

  • Bub
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Is DIY an option?
I’m thinking using a WLED driver to the LED-strip then use any wall mounted switch you want, probably at least double switch connected to an ESP-Home based controller.
This will then sense what button/switch you press and send the command to the WLED driver.

So from the outside everything looks normal/professional but behind the wall you have the DIY parts.

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Thanks for reply! Yep, DIY is an option. Problem I was having with that approach though is smooth dimming. I was using a Z-wave dimmer as an experiment, and just had the dimmer command another dimmer. Problem is, the manual control dimmer doesn’t report it’s brightness until you release the button. So you just have to press it for some amount of time, release the button and hope the dimness level is what you were hoping for. On top of that, also want to control the white color temperature.

In the meantime, since my hemming and hawing last night I think I found an option forward. Use the standard “RF LED drivers” I see for sale all over, together with an RF dimmer knob for manual control, and a WiFi-to-RF bridge for home assistant control. Turns out to not be a bad option, price wise. The dimmer knob looks kinda stupid, but ah well.

RF Led controller/receiver

Stupid looking dimmer for manual control

Wifi to RF bridge for home assistant control. Might actually end up going DIY for the Wifi to RF bridge. Found good option last night on the forums.

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I don’t really understand how this relates to what I wrote.
I’m fairly sure this would not be an issue with WLED and ESP-Home.

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I think I am going to go this way, sort of, for just an on/off switch. But I am thinking at this point of going with the Sidoh ESP8266 Milight wifi-bridge emulator together with an off the shelf wireless 24V LED controller instead of ESP-Home/WLED. I have not yet ventured into the ESP-Home world yet. So far I have been relying on off the shelf stuff so it’s hard for me to identify why that approach might be better than the Sidoh Milight device.

This is the only way I could figure out how to get a physical type in-wall dimmer that can control brightness and temperature that looks off the shelf. I thought about having two normal dimmers, one for brightness, one for color, which I think is where you were going. But in the end, this is kind of a beginning project into DIY so the less DIY for now the better. This will be my first foray into MQTT.

I might end up regretting this if the integration into Home Assistant ends up being more complicated for this approach than using WLED.