Recently, I’ve been looking into DIY installing some landscape lighting. I already have a plan to get power to my landscape lights, but I would preferably like to have RGBW lights.
The issue is that I can’t use traditional zigbee/z-wave bulbs for this, because they all run on mains voltage, and I don’t want to deal with the hassle of running 120V to landscape lights (code has strict requirements on cable you can use, burial depth, etc.) and would strongly prefer 12/24V landscape wiring.
Is there any way at all to accomplish this? My thought was that I would have to use zigbee or z-wave since I’m not sure how else the bulbs would talk to each other (there’s no standard for landscape power AND data), but I really can’t find any quality fixtures/bulbs that work outdoors–or really any low power RGBW bulbs at all for that matter.
I may just have to settle for no RGB, but surely there’s a way to do this? Thanks
The Tuya integration does allow for many brands to work you may not realize. You join them in Tuya or SmartLife instead of their native app.
Atomi is a brand that works, but having dealt with many warranty claims with them, I feel they’re low quality.
If you are ok with a little DIY work, look for lights like these. https://share.google/V1WLVZr84vAyKN5MP
You would need to put together the power supply and a ws2811 controller. I use mostly Diguno controllers running WLED.
I’m currently designing my back yard lighting as well as we are redoing several things back there.
Here’s the solution I’m considering: 24v system, but I want on/off and dimmable. I’m not big on RGB for outdoor lighting, the amount of times I’ll use that throughout the year is minimal, I’ll save that for Christmas lights. IMO the white lights for the RGB is never great for outdoor lighting and I’ll stick to something that’s warm white for outdoors. That being said, the solution is the same.
I’m getting a 24v power supply, and I want to run the Shelly Pro RGBWW DIN mounted controller. It’s wifi, and locally controlled. By doing white only, I can control 5 string lights. Otherwise, I’d get a WLED outdoor controller as another option if I needed individually addressable lights.
By going this route, I can get an outdoor enclosure with a DIN rail, mount the power supply, mount the lighting controller next to it, and control several strings from one box easily. It’s relatively off the shelf, and works locally.
My astrisk is I haven’t done this, I’m still reasearching it, but people keep mentioning Rachio lighting controllers. A, they are expensive, and B, last I checked Rachio is a cloud based solution.
