I’ve got a few Monoprice RGB bulbs (Hank HKZW-RGB01) which have 5 LEDs red, green, blue, warm white, cool white. I can pair them with home assistant and I get the color wheel control in the UI which controls the RGB part with no problem. However, I can’t figure out how to turn on just the warm white LED for normal use.
Selecting the middle “white” part of the color wheel produces a really dingy shade of white, I believe it just turns all three RGB LEDs to the same level.
I’ve been poking around the zwave options and I don’t see a way to control this option at all. Although from the zwcfg_.xml it does look like the warm white option should be accessible through z-wave, I just don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve attached the relevant node information for this device from the zwcfg_.xml.
If these were, or at least seen as, RGBW you’d get a panel like below. White is set using the color temperature slider which overrides the RGB settings when changed, although it’s not immediately obvious.
Well this bulb is definitely missing the color temp options.
I guess my question now is why doesn’t HA see the white channel for this device. Is it a limitation with all zwave RGBW devices? In the config for this node it definitely looks like there should be options to turn on the cool white and warm white channels.
I’m going to add on to this hack to get myself unstuck and any other manufacturer/product id combos I get from this thread.
The longer term fix is probably splitting out mixed rgbw and these independent white led bulbs into different components, I’m new to HA so I’m not sure the “right” way to do that refactoring yet. The hack is at least straight forward.
Thanks for looking into this! If you could add a work around for the Hank bulb I mentioned in the first post that would be awesome.
I also have a new z-wave LED strip controller which is also RGBW. I don’t know if it matters but it doesn’t have an open zwave config file yet. Here is the product:
I can get the exact manufacturer and model when I’m home later.
This is Home Assistant specific change. You’ll have to modify OpenZWave to get a configuration for your RGBgenie controller, after that Home Assistant should do the right thing.
Just to chip in; my Zwave FGRGBWM441 RGBW Controller behaves the same; within HA no colour temp within the main RGB+Brightness panel is shown and the only way to control the White LED Channel is to use the dedicated channel entity.
Perhaps @WALoeIII would be willing to add more models if you leave them here but don’t expect them all to be working. This was more of a temporary improvement than a long term solution.
