Dresden Elektronik ZigBee RGB LED Strip Controller

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Received a FLS-PP lp Bundle (RGB) Extension Set Wireless Light Control https://shop.dresden-elektronik.de/solutions/kits/fls-pp-lp-bundle-rgb.html?___store=english&___from_store=deutsch today. I had no real idea whether this would work or not and I had not actually found out what the ZigBee ballast was until I received it. Amazingly enough it paired up with my Almond+ without any trouble upon starting and was identified as a ColorDimmableLight. Sounds good so far.

So off the bat I notice the UI is a little... lacking for an RGB LED Strip as it is obviously geared towards lighting bulbs with the color spectrum displayed (in the initial screen). But it seems to be controlling the dimming and the color within the range displayed. Good news. I notice a little "settings" button and click on that. Now it shows a full color bar (the whole range of basic colors) and a bar I think controlled saturation (it was labeled "Sat"). I start playing with the color bar, the LEDs are changing (!).

I get to green... it turns green, then changes back to white. From that point on nothing further works from the Almond+ UI with it. No color changes, no dimming, none of the basic on-off. I close the menu, go back in, no response. I remove the light and attempt to re-add it... so far it will not re-add. I just got the instructions to reset it (POPO 4x, wait while it blinks, POPO 2x)... So hopefully more news to follow.

But no matter what, I was pleasantly surprised that any part worked to begin with. Has anyone else played with anything from this company? They are based in Germany. A couple searches in the forum did not find anything related.

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Resetting it to factory defaults helped. I was able to add it back to the Almond+ and control it on-off a couple times. Cannot mess with it too much tonight but I have noticed that it is listed as an Unsupported Device within the Web interface for the Almond+ AND on connect.securifi.com.

So it is somewhat limited for now. But the hope is there that more control will be available in the future.

[LGNilsson]

We only just added support for colour control in R070as and it's a but buggy. Normally it should be enough to switch off and on the "bulb" to make it work again if it stops working. In your case it'd be the ballast. Things should improve over the next couple of firmware.

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No matter what it worked better than I expected. I got it with no idea who made the ballast and when arrived, and found no reference to the company in the forums I started to get a little anxious. Having it work, even with bugs, on the LUI is a huge first.

I asked an eBay vendor about a similar (and far cheaper) ballast that is also ZigBee... But they only replied that it worked with their ZigBee hub and would not answer whether it was Light Link compatible like this one specifically states.

At the very least this is a nice on I will be happy to play with in the future, especially when the color can be controlled via rules.