I have Fibaro Dimmer 2 modules and single Switch modules.
Unable / impossible to update without an Fibaro HC (Lite).
Some Fibaro dealers in the Netherlands offer you an HC for “rent” to update the firmware at home or you sent the module(s) to them.
Don’t know another way to update the firmware.
Grtn Ben
Same in The Netherlands, free returns for web sales within 2 weeks.
Amazon and all other sellers suffer from this “shopping”, all the returned items. The returned items are then sold 2nd hand, opened boxes…
A quick question before I connect my RGBW.
My LED Driver has a + and - output. The + goes to the 12V Fibaro port but should the - go to GND? There is no Ground on the output nor the LED strips (only + and -). Please advise.
I successfully installed the RGBW unit. Time will tell if it works flawlessly. @anon36505037 Thanks!
Which DH should I use with the unit running non-rgb LED strips? Is the David Lomas (codersaur) DH still the one to use? For some reason it doesn’t change state to “ON” when the light is “ON” and I have to click twice to turn the light “OFF”. In the “Live log” I see it switches on/off all 4 channels. I have only put in channel R. Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you @anon36505037 I managed to set it according to the manual by @zcapr17
But it has a slight tickling (barely noticeable flicker) at 50% and below which it doesn’t have using the Fibaro Dimmer 2. Is there something to change in the parameters or in the DH to make it perform better at dimming? The load is about 50W.
Does anyone here have recommendations for ceiling mounted led lights that work well with the Dimmer 2? I am doing a renovation but don’t want to make lots of holes in the ceiling for recessed GU10 downlighters, so am looking for something that sits on the surface of the ceiling.
There are surface mounted lights that have GU10 fittings, but they are quite large. There are smaller ones which have built in LEDs, rather than GU10s, but the concern is ensuring they work with the Fibaros before you buy lots of them.
Thanks in advance
Pete
Thanks Robin
New question - can you run 2 normal led wall lights and a single colour led strip on the same circuit on a Dimmer 2? I have one circuit in a bathroom which has two wall lights and a led strip in a “nook” by the bath which I want to control together. Or do I have to run the strip on a different Fibaro?
Thanks
Peter
Anyone here had any issues with Retrotouch glass retractive switches not making the connection? I’ve just bought a whole house worth of them and many of them are sticking, and others require a proper hard push to make the connection. Some are fine, but at least half have issues. My other half is not going to be impressed and we are moving back in on Saturday…
Any tips gratefully received.
Peter
Thanks Robin.
I will have a go at swapping plates around as you suggest, failing that we may need to switch to simplicity as well. Quite a lot of cash down the drain though…
Cheers
P
I got some initial samples from Ashdown Home Supplies, but bought the bulk from Direct Trade Supplies as they were cheaper. They’ve been sitting here for 2 month though until it was time to fit them, so I don’t know if I’ll be able to reject them completely. We will see.
Let me have a go at swapping the plates around first.
P
I have been using my Fibaro Dimmer 2s without Issue for a year now. I have around 30. Recently I discovered that one just disappeared from both the SmartThings App and the SmartThings IDE. No trace of the Device whatsoever.
I have seen devices reporting faults before which I could clear, but I’ve never seen something drop completely as though it was never there. The only trace of it I have is in a WebCore Piston it now refers to it by an alphanumeric string and no longer the name. This is :fe6fe97963bdf828bbc86ce5783c6bb3:
Anyone have any ideas. I’m putting off digging out the dimmer from the wall and removing and re-adding simply because I’m the past this has meant I need to do it close to the SmartThings hub to do a secure add. If I do it in its wired state it doesn’t add securely and doesn’t work. So tend to have to get an electrician out to help. Will do this, but wondering if anyone has experiences anything similar?
One additional thing that may or may not be of relevance. I had this Fibaro Module associated with another. The switch attached to the model still correctly activated the associated device. So despite the Fibaro disappearing from SmartThings and the IDE, the association still works.
thanks
David.
Thanks. Not quite sure how I accidentally excluded it, but stranger things have happened, so will accept that that is what somehow happened!
I remember moving the hub to the device a while back when setting up these dimmers for the first time. It didn’t work, as there are many dimmers grouped close together, so in almost all cases the dimmer I was adopting into SmartThings would connect via another device rather than directly, and this would cause the device not to work. So think I do need to move the device to the hub which is sufficiently away from other Fibaro devices.
When you say it is low voltage. Do you mean the wires going to the dimmer are low voltage!? Aren’t they coming directly from my mains board? So if I start playing with the wires, I could have a problem? I realise i’d turn off the mains before doing this, but that is where I (and my wife) don’t trust myself!
David.
Codersaur - Fibaro Dimmer 2. Think it was the one you recommended.
Wasn’t there something about it needing to be a secure adoption into the SmartThings Hub, which required it to be direct rather than via another Fibaro+ device? Because when it connected via another Fibaro Device I was getting behaviour such as when I turned the switch on, it just said ‘Turning On’ without actually turning on etc.
Oh, didn’t know about the native handler.
In simple terms, how do I ‘Best to remove the device fingerprints from his handler code, and let ST default to their new local handler.’?
In this case, if I add this device from scratch again, what do i choose in the IDE under ‘type’. I was using ‘Fibaro Dimmer 2’ for the Codersaur handler. What is it for the native SmartThings handler?
Also - with the SmartThings handler should I not have to worry about a direct secure connection to the hub, ie it can adopt via another Fibaro device without causing an issue?
thanks again!
David.
Ok. I did it before you’d replied with the code to remove from Codersaur’s device handler. I triple clicked the switch attached to S1 and, with the SmartThings Hub in inclusion mode, it found the dimmer. I adopted it and it automatically associated it with Codersaur’s Device Handler. I tried to force a calibration but it did nothing (ie just stayed as Sync Pending). So I went into the IDE and changed the Device Handler it was associated with to ‘Fibaro Dimmer 2 SW5’ much higher up the list.
But when I forced a calibration with this I got ‘Sync incomplete! Open settings and tap Done to try again.’
So light isn’t working from SmartThings. Any ideas?
thanks!
I also get the following when I open the IDE on this device…
It looks like it failed to connect to the hub securely…
Ok. Will try a few times, but I seem to recall about a year ago this was consistently happening when adopting in place next to a whole bunch of other Fibaro Dimmer 2 modules. The only thing that seemed to work was to take the specific module away from the other modules and right on top of the SmartThings Hub.
But maybe @JDRoberts has some advice?
Thanks again, hopefully can eventually sort!
Nope. I was trying to avoid going where all the wiring is. But if that is the only way, that is what I will do. Unless factory reset then also does some form of firmware update, I still think I’ll end up having to take the fibaro dimmer away from its current position, next to about 8 other Dimmers, and take it close to where the hub is, which is away from all other dimmers. So that it can be adopted directly to the hub rather than via other dimmers. Unless of course things have changed since a year ago - eg the SmartThings device handler is able to handle meshed adoption where codersuar’s was not.
Thanks
The easiest way is to bring the hub close to the module, even if you have 30 Dimmers close by it doesn’t matter as you are only setting a single module in inclusion mode by triple clicking the B button with a small screwdriver, and to factory reset hold B button until light turns yellow then click to confirm, I didn’t even turn my light circuit off, then just replaced the switch plate. It took less than 5 minutes.
Ok, will try again. It wasn’t that the others were in inclusion mode. Only the one was. It was that they were being adopted by the hub via the other modules. At least that is what I was told, and therefore they failed the secure adoption required. But will try and report back, as soon as I get a 10m Ethernet cable!
