FLS-PP lp a ZigBee Light Link Wireless Ballast for LED Stripes

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Hi manu,

that’s it :slight_smile: After editing the Network Settings I was able to update the firmware. Now I can control a separate white and color channel. Thanks for your help.

Greets
gus484

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Would you be willing to update mine?

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I just got my RaspBee Pro, and updated the firmware on my 3 FLS-PPs.

A couple things I encountered that might help others:

  • You need to use deCONZ-autostart.sh or the Startmenu > Programming > deCONZ menu item, not the bare deCONZ app.

  • You need X11 running (startx) on the RPI or via SSH agent forwarding (-Y)

  • Don’t forget the Network settings to add the In Clusters 0x19 setting.

  • You need to ensure you haven’t got anything elsie listening to port 80 if you use deCONZ-autostart.sh

  • You will need both the X11 interface (for network settings) and the web interface.

  • If your RaspBee firmware gets updated, you appear to need to powercycle. I waited an hour (with 0x19). The RaspBee would flash the Green LED solid for about 5-10 seconds, then do nothing for a while. The OTA updates never completed.

  • Updating 3 devices takes 3x as long… And didn’t always work the first time. Took me 3 times to get one of the 3 updated.

  • If you don’t have the ability to move the RaspBee to the ballasts, you can reset/unpair the FLS-PP units by:

    • Power cycle 4x, leaving them on 2s between cycles, until it blinks the LEDs. Wait for the blinking to stop. Power cycle two more times, waiting 2s. The LEDs should light up to a different illumination/colour than you had before, if you had somethning different (which I reccommend, I started with Red).
    • Now you can add them to deCONZ.

  • With deCONZ and the RaspBee I can control the RGB and W seperately. It’s great, and doubles the light output!

  • With Hue as I can only control the RGBW as before.

Now I need to look into changing how my automation works, because I really want the full white LED control for the >2x light levels it provides.

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85

Having some issues with RGBW LED strips, hope a firmware upgrade fixes the issue

Appreciate if someone can help get the code on my unit updated in the US

thanks

87

So I see the video of this working with a hue bridge. Does this work with smartthings as two logical devices? One white light dimmer and one color changing light dimmer?

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It does for me connected via a Hue 2 bridge.

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Currently, not without the Hue bridge, as others have said. I’m still hopefully that SmartThings will allow for this soon, as the update I just got for the Android app on 3/7/16 mentioned “updated controls for color changing bulbs,” but still did not have separate white and saturation controls.

Without anything but ST and the FLS-PP, is there a way to adjust combine two or more units to color change at the same time? I have nearly 15 meters of RGBW strips running around a tray ceiling with dropped crown molding using two separate controllers, and would like to get both halves of this rectangle to operate together instead of having to change each individually. Is this handled through a virtual switch that also does color changing? I’m not very skilled with ST yet so I don’t know if that’s possible.

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Also… Is it possible to manipulate the preset colors in Smart App lighting? The “blue” is more of an black light color that makes white items in the room glow, and I haven’t had a need for that since freshman year of college! I’m thinking there has to be a way to program it on the API to tell it what the “blue” color is supposed to look like, since every LED strip is different.

Thanks in advance!

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You can link them through using something like Smart Lighting but a better option is Rule Machine. As for the preset colours, you can probably copy the DTH and make a custom version of it and change the settings there.

@erocm1231 did this for the Aeon RGBW bulb in the following thread:

He switched one of the white options to be a random colour generator which is awesome!

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I’ve had my FLS-PP lp for about 48 hours now, and I’m really enjoying it. I tried to pair it with my LivingColors remote, but it wouldn’t pair. In particular, this remote: http://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/6916431PH/livingcolors-remote-control

Is there some reason why it won’t work?

Thanks,
Andrew

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Wouldn’t it just be easier to link the 2 sets using an RGBW repeater instead of having 2 controllers?

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The color temperature control on the extended color light doesn’t seem to work. It displays a scale from 0-100 K and allows setting in this range, but it doesn’t affect the color. It looks like the white and RGB can only be controlled as separate lights. I expected tunable color temperature, like the OSRAM bulbs or the hue bulbs, but it seems to be disabled by the separate white control.

Is this supposed to work this way?

Thanks

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ZigBee devices usually switch modes according to the last command sent, and assume that the client more or less uses modes consistently for a seamless experience.

For example:

  • HS or XY commands sent to the color cluster (300) of the extended color light should operate the RGB LEDs only and assume that the white LEDs will be controlled by the dimmable light clusters
  • Commands sent to the dimmable Light should take control of the white LEDs and assume that HS or XY mode will be used to control the RGB LEDs
  • Color Temperature commands sent to the extended color light should take control of all LEDs from the extended color light clusters 6, 8, and 300 and mix in red or blue according to the CT setting

Does this make sense? Is it supposed to work as I described?

Thanks!

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I’ve installed a SmartThings hub, two Hue LED strings, an OSRAM string and a Minimote and all is happy and works fine. I’ve wired up a dresden elektronik wireless ballast and it shows up as “Unknown”. The string of LEDs attached to the ballast light up green.

Being new to home automation, what have I done wrong or what do I need to do to make the ballast show up as a valid, controllable device?

Thanks,

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Finally found a document on the dresden web page indicating the LEDs attached to the device should default to white when powered up.

Device maybe damaged.

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Some of the cheap LED strips have their colours actually wired up wrong to what they are labelled. That being said I seem to recall mine initially lighting up green or red or something.

Are you trying to pair it directly to the ST hub or a Hue Bridge?

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Thanks for the interest.

Connecting to a SmartThings hub.

Using the mobile app, I removed the “unknown” thing.
I have subsequently been unable to discover it again.

To continue my efforts, I added two generic RGBW handlers to “My Device Handlers” and the dresden can still not be discovered.

At this point, I have no clue what I’m doing. Actually had no clue earlier.

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It sounds like you need to reset the FLS-PP lp. I can’t recall if there are instructions in the pamphlet that comes with it. There definitely are on the manufacturer’s website. I had to reset mine recently. The process isn’t too hard, and you’ll know it worked because the light turns green or something.

Then rejoin it to you network.

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Thank you for your interest.

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner, you had the correct answer !!

Found instructions, performed it twice to be sure and device showed up correctly as a functioning thing.

Thank you.

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So can any one confirm they have got the FLS-PP ballasts to work with the Philips hue bridge as i understand Philips hue did a firmware update and it dose not work it dose not see the FLS-PP ballasts to be a Philips hue strip any more?

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Mine works fine. I have a hub v2 (square homekit one) with the very latest firmware.

Philips took a ton of flack for restricting 3rd party bulbs and walked that back pretty quickly. About a week after releasing that firmware, they backtracked and released another update that undid the restrictions.

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