How is it possible with RGBW Controller 2 to turn on the outputs without a physical switch connected? The outputs seem to be related to the inputs.
Until now, I achieved the following “workaround”:
momentary connect IN1 (using a regular cable) so IN1 has state “ON”
Control output using dimmer item via UI (0 / 100)
Like this I try to control dimmer item using Rules to set “dimming” to 0 or 100 (On/Off).
But if I try to post 0 or 100 to dimmer item, status is reflected in UI but not “physical”. It only works by changing dimmer manually via UI.
Does someone has a better idea to achieve my goal with the valves or can tell me how to control dimmer in rules?
Yes - I use multiple of them without having the inputs connected at all.
A couple of weeks ago another use asked the same thing and I provied a link where I showed the item configuration.
Which link exactly do you mean?
I read (again) thrue the following discussion “How do I control FGRGBW-442 RGBW Controller 2” and saw some item configurations. But I didn’t notice anything that could save me a physical switch.
If I unpower and repower the device (Param 1 = 0) I can not control the “brightness”. I first have to momentary conntect the corresponding input.
What values do you have for Param 20-23? My values are 2 (default)
Do you have any Params which are not default and which can remove this behaviour?
However I’m not able to change/save any of the parameters. But I saw another post which is discussing this.
As I said - I’m using multiple devices without anything connected to the input of the devices.
There is no need to connect a switch to control the outputs.
Originally I tried to use dimmer1 to control valve1 on out1 (R). But it seems that out1 (R) is related to dimmer2. Now to be able to switch dimmer2 On (100) , dimmer1 has to be On (100) too.
Channel “dimmer” seems to follow values of “dimmer1”, so I’m not sure what the difference is between this two.
Channel 1 is the Master Dimmer, Channel 2,3,4,5 is rgbw.
If you have a color set, you can fade the complete color with the master dimmer up and down.
I however set it once to 100% and then control the individual channels directly.
They are. RGBW2 has an additional ColorChannel, but I am not 100% sure about this.
At least the channels are named different.
One more important difference I think is that you can not use the Input and outputs independently.
As far as I know with RGBW Controller 1 this is possible.
For me that means that I have to use a different device for my soil moisture sensors, i.e. “Fibaro Smart Implant” or another RGBW2 only for inputs…
