Controlling Fibaro rgbw led strip module

[mioduz (Chris M)]

I am using a Fibaro rgbw to control led strips under and above my kitchen cabinets. When the house was built i had the electrician put in a light switch that controls a 110 outlet on top of cabinets. Now the issue. If we use the switch to turn on and off the leds then I can not use smart things to do stuff like automaticaly turn them on based on motion sensors. My intent is to bypass the physical switch and essentially leave that outlet “always on” but the last issue is how does someone manually control the lights if she just wants to turn them on for example. Ideally change colors as well possibly dim up and down

[jeubanks]

I may need some more information. But to start.

You have an outlet in place?
Replace it with a z-wave outlet. They usually come with one outlet normal and one smart outlet that you can remotely turn on/off for plugin devices.

Now if you have a light switch. Replace it with a smart switch again z-wave or zigbee and then you can remotely control the outlet through the switch or manually like a normal switch.

So the question is… The light switch controls the outlet correct? If the goal is to control the outlet, then a smart switch will work. If you have an outlet and no switch, then use a smart outlet.

[Nezmo]

I totally misread your post so I removed my initial reply.

Your options are limited if you want to control colors without using the app.

See here:

RGB wall controls?

What, if any, options exist for doing RGB color and dimming control from a single gang wall plate? I’ve seen a variety of Euro wallplate gizmos with an RGB Circle. I could use something like that but I figured it’d be worth asking if there’s anything geared for working with us spec wall plates I know there’s plenty of ways to approach the problem using buttons and the like but I’m curious if there is anything designed specifically for RGB adjustments. And yes I understand you can use apps on a variety of other things like remotes, tablets and phones to do this kind of thing. But I’ve learned over the years that apps and remotes are never quite where you want them to be when you want to make lighting changes. So something hard mounted in the wall is generally a little more predictable. I…

Fibaro RGBW Controller (DTH link in post 32, police light smartapp link in post 79)

I replaced an existing device and it seems to work great! I had to switch the green wire with the red but I think that is an issue with my light strips not labeled correctly. Hasn’t been on long enough to show energy usage. Is there any way to get the four analog inputs? I want to have it turn on when a cabinet door is opened and figured I could use one of these inputs. Also, down the road I would like to use something like this which I think I can get working with the inputs: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31-cvp1Fl5L.AA160.jpg Also, is there a “big dimmer” smart app that lets me control many at once? Thanks for the excellent work!

[jeubanks]

I totally spaced on the mention of Fibaro

[Cobra (Andy - United Kingdom)]

It’s easy to have a ‘preset’ colour using an on/off/dimming switch, but I don’t know of a way to change the colours using a switch. (apart from swapping between two)
However, I’m in the UK so we don’t have the range of devices that are available elsewhere.

This just gave me an idea for a smartapp…
Toggle Fibaro Colours… setup a number of ‘preset’ colours then each time the switch is pressed toggle between them in a sequence, with the last toggle being off… hmmm…