alanchow Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Chowmain - Yeelight Wifi RGB LED Lighting driver for Control4 Yeelight manufactures a range of affordable Wifi controlled LED lighting products. The range consists of dimmable RGB, White and strip based LED lighting. These products do not need a hub like other wireless lighting products and integrate directly into Control4 with Chowmain’s Yeelight driver. This two way driver allows do dim the light, change the color of the light, change the color temperature of the light and more. Features Two way control/feedback. Instant feedback if LED controlled from another application. Automatic Discovery of Yeelight Self Healing on change of IP Address Automatically hide RGB and/or Color Temperature’s from Navigator on model detection. Change RGB color via navigator Change Brightness via navigator Change Color temperature via navigator Program color flows from Composer Advanced Lighting Scene Support FAQ Why is this better than other RGB solutions? This is an extremely affordable solution (starting from $20) which does not require an additional hub to operate. We have full control over pretty much every function including color, temperature, brightness and even color flows. We have instantaneous two way feedback. If the customer uses the original application Control4 gets the change immediately. Where can I purchase this product from? Yeelight can be purchased from Amazon and other online retailers in both 220v and 110v formats. Yeelight Website What hardware does this support? This supports the wifi range of Yeelight products. At the time of writing this includes the RGB bulb, Mono Bulb, Desk Lamp and RGB strip based LED lighting. How do I find out more information about the driver? Please see the links below for more information about the driver. Chowmain Website Installation Guide How do I buy the driver? This driver can be purchased from our distributor driverCentral. Download Driver / Purchase Licence Who do i contact for technical support? We have two support desks. One in Australia and one in the US. Click on the link below for details. Support Do you provide trial licences? All Chowmain drivers for Control4 come with a 7 day trial. VINCELdUB, msgreenf, wappinghigh and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Shivam Paw Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 Hi does this work with the LED strip based lights and allow colour changing? Also, I don’t seem to understand the control flow - is there a way to make the LEDs slowly fade and change through all 16 million possible colour combinations repeatedly? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted November 2, 2017 Author Share Posted November 2, 2017 9 hours ago, Shivam Paw said: Hi does this work with the LED strip based lights and allow colour changing? Also, I don’t seem to understand the control flow - is there a way to make the LEDs slowly fade and change through all 16 million possible colour combinations repeatedly? Thanks. Yes it works with the RGBW strip as well. I have it working at my place. Yeelight is a bit weird and kind of cool. You can actually send it the sequence you want to fade from/to. We implemented this in the driver as an action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koxkp Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Is there a way to group them if I’m using three strips in one area. Also, is there a cleaner way to show them in the navigator instead of 5 for every strip?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 27 minutes ago, koxkp said: Is there a way to group them if I’m using three strips in one area. Also, is there a cleaner way to show them in the navigator instead of 5 for every strip? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk You can use lighting scenes to group but if you want the fade effect style then you'll need to program it through a macro. In fact programming directly using the actions is the cleanest way. Control4's Navigator doesn't havea RGB color wheel so unfortunately this is the best we can do. Control4's Philips Hue driver does something similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 7 hours ago, alanchow said: Yes it works with the RGBW strip as well. I have it working at my place. Yeelight is a bit weird and kind of cool. You can actually send it the sequence you want to fade from/to. We implemented this in the driver as an action. Could you by any chance send some screenshots of how I would get it working? I just want to see what is needed before I buy the lights and driver. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Shivam Paw said: Could you by any chance send some screenshots of how I would get it working? I just want to see what is needed before I buy the lights and driver. Thanks We actually have an entire installation guide on our website which goes through this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 40 minutes ago, alanchow said: We actually have an entire installation guide on our website which goes through this. Yeah I saw that and the example was 1000, 2, 2700, 100, 500, 1,255, 10, 5000, 7, 0,0, 500, 2, 5000, 1. I can't tell what it exactly does though. 1000 milliseconds, color temperature with a value of 2700 on a brightness of 100 500 milliseconds, color 255 brightness of 10 5000 milliseconds sleep 500 milliseconds color temp 5000 brightness of 1 What does all of that even mean? Sorry if the questions are nooby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 its seperated into blocks of 4 1000, 2, 2700, 100, 500, 1,255, 10, 5000, 7, 0,0, 500, 2, 5000, 1. [duration,mode,value,brightness] Duration: Gradual change time or sleep time, in milliseconds, minimum value 50. Mode: 1 – color, 2 – color temperature, 7 – sleep. Value: RGB value when mode is 1, CT value when mode is 2, Ignored when mode is 7. Brightness: Brightness value, -1 or 1 ~ 100. Ignored when mode is 7. When this value is -1, brightness in this tuple is ignored (only color or CT change takes effect). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 12 hours ago, alanchow said: its seperated into blocks of 4 1000, 2, 2700, 100, 500, 1,255, 10, 5000, 7, 0,0, 500, 2, 5000, 1. [duration,mode,value,brightness] Duration: Gradual change time or sleep time, in milliseconds, minimum value 50. Mode: 1 – color, 2 – color temperature, 7 – sleep. Value: RGB value when mode is 1, CT value when mode is 2, Ignored when mode is 7. Brightness: Brightness value, -1 or 1 ~ 100. Ignored when mode is 7. When this value is -1, brightness in this tuple is ignored (only color or CT change takes effect). Yeah, I saw that in the installation guide but I don't get what it's actually doing or what I would need to use for my requirements. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 41 minutes ago, Shivam Paw said: Yeah, I saw that in the installation guide but I don't get what it's actually doing or what I would need to use for my requirements. Any ideas? It is a macro that defines the color values duration brightness and sequence. Your programmer will know what to do if you tell them how you want it. I used it to do some lightning effects and red glows sequenced recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 There seems to be a problem where you can't enter an expression. For example, if I enter 1000, 2, 2700, 100, 500, 1,255, 10, 5000, 7, 0,0, 500, 2, 5000, 1 in the expression box and press enter to save it and drag the action, the action just stays at start color flow with expression 0 and that windows beep noise plays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 The device is also showing offline but it's IP hasn't changed and works through the Yeelight app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Got it rediscovered but still can't enter anything in the expression box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 6 hours ago, Shivam Paw said: There seems to be a problem where you can't enter an expression. For example, if I enter 1000, 2, 2700, 100, 500, 1,255, 10, 5000, 7, 0,0, 500, 2, 5000, 1 in the expression box and press enter to save it and drag the action, the action just stays at start color flow with expression 0 and that windows beep noise plays. Just tested this on 3 different Yeelights in my home and it definately works. you are correct that the expression says 0 in composer which we will fix. Note the expression is still saved and will execute. Have you tried it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Ok I’ll check that if expression still works. What exactly does that expression do so I know what I’m looking for? thanks :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Ok yeah that is working - it's just displaying as 0. I'm trying this expression to cycle through colours but it isn't working. It is just stuck on red: 1000, 1, 16711680, 100, 1000, 1, 16776960, 100, 1000, 1, 65280, 100, 1000, 1, 65535, 100, 1000, 1, 255, 100, 1000, 1, 16711935, 100 I'm trying to achieve the effect you get when holding the button on the LEDs strip and it just cycles through the colours. Edit: used this which seems to work well: 2000, 1, 16711680, 100, 2000, 1, 16776960, 100, 2000, 1, 65280, 100, 2000, 1, 65535, 100, 2000, 1, 255, 100, 2000, 1, 16711935, 100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted November 12, 2017 Author Share Posted November 12, 2017 Glad you got it sorted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivam Paw Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 Now that it’s all working I’m gonna need a license for it :-) anyone able to shoot me a PM with prices? msgreenf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 In theory, what would be the best way to handle coloured lights? Should C4 be creating a proxy (or whatever it is called) for coloured lights so that properties like RGB/HSB (or whatever) are part of the basic properties of a light? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 It's been asked for several times over the last few years. A new proxy does need to be created or at least the lighting proxy revised, in order to get this functionality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koxkp Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Curious if these go on any Black Friday deal. Keeping an eye out but I’ll probably pick some up before Christmas either way. My girlfriend is really skeptical of the brand, but all the reviews look good...and no hubSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 There are Yeelight LED strips as pictured below. Does anyone know what the connector is like? I would be interested in using the controller with a generic light strip that you can buy for about $10/5m strip. But I can't find any good photos to see if this just uses a standard 4 pin connector like the generic strips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoahS Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Anyone here have the strips and think they have a pinkish hue when in "white" mode? I just got my pair and they are very pinkish. Alan doesnt have the problem with his.. I am curious too if someone can confirm if these are RGBW or just RGB? I am wondering if they do have separate W LEDs and mine are just not working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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