I have looked for specs on the LED driver SN-RF72/108CW but couldn’t find anything.
If I can’t get the specs the other approach may be to replace the LED driver with something known that runs on Wifi or another RF interface What about ZigBee?
So far I’ve had no luck with a RFLink with 433MHz+2.4GHz transceivers… nothing appears on the logs when I use the remote (even though a somfy RTS device is controlled perfectly with it using the 433 band)
The approach I’m trying to take here is that of a hardware solution. @Austins_Creations on the SuperHouseTV Discord server was super helpful and has provided some great insight into this → Discord. You essentially take an ESP to mimic button presses
NOTE: Theory at the moment as this project is still in the pipeline
I have the exact same remote with a very similar LED driver. Mine is an SN-RF54/72CW. I have two lights and they claim to be able to pair both lights to a single remote and the directions are confusing at best. Actually, I have found 3 different pairing instructions and none of them work. I was looking into maybe replacing the entire LED driver in the light? It would have to be 120V input, 24V output and also dim and change color temp on the LEDs.
That driver seems to be for RGBW led strips so which kind are you strips? Driver name “SN-RF54/72CW” suggests it’s only cold white but it might be in fact WW+CW since the OP can change the white temperature. With the remote, I guess you change the white color temperature? And that you can’t have real colors such as blue etc.?
And yes I also think the easier would be to change the driver.
So my solution was to replace the hardware. I’ll start by saying I love my DIY and I have a basic understanding on how electricity and appliances work but I am by no means a professional or trained electrician. I live in a country with 240V 50Hz mains.
To break it down to basics, the device shown above is an LED Driver which combines a Transformer converting AC 100-240V to DC 24V and a 2.4 GHz RF module.
What it did was remove that from the LED light bulbs and replace it with two different components :-
Transformer converting AC 240V to DC 24V
BRIMETI 24V LED Driver 200W LED Transformer AC 240V to DC 24 Volt 8.3A
A MiBoxer (2 in 1) LED Controller with WiFi and 2.4GHz RF capability - CCT and Dimming - Model FUT035W+
Wire the Transformer to your mains, then wire it to the MiBoxer LED Controller and wire that to your lights. Set up the connection process, bearing in mind the default setting on the MiBoxer is “Single Light + Dimming” and you have to change it to “CCT” if appropriate. From there you download Tuya app and that links with your smart home.
Wiring is simple enough. And you can buy any product you want, there is no shortage of variety of brands.
There are LED Drivers out there with appropriate voltage transforming and WiFi ability but for some reason I only found pricey ones. My method involving two separate devices was about 40% the price of a single MiBoxer LED Driver that does the same job.
I was hoping for a solution with the same hardware but thanks for sharing! That’s also the only solution I imagined so far, although I delayed it since it’s a low priority for me.
However, any solution you get will involve a new device at the least to bridge RF and WiFi/ZigBee/BT. I figured if you changed the LED Driver, at least it communicates directly with WiFi without relying on a middle man device. A neater operation in my opinion.