RLDreams
February 6, 2016, 3:57am
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You still need the controller, the add on strips don’t connect to anything other than other lights strips/extensions. Yes there is official support and app, just look in app under lights, Osram.
There’s a whole thread ( probably many actually ) on the Osram lights
Just some neat observations for posterity. I found a shortcut for anyone trying to update the firmware on their bulbs using the Osram Gateway.
I wanted to upgrade the firmware on my bulbs so that a physical off preserves the state when they turn back on. This is a great feature and I am surprised the bulbs didn’t ship with this to begin with. In any case, I had to sync each bulb via the Osram Gateway to do this.
The Gateway itself is a pain to setup, but I did not have to remove the bulbs from the SmartThings Hub to do this. They were disconnected from the Hub, but I didn’t have to muck around with the Smartapps and all – they just became unresponsive.
I have all of my LIGHTIFY switches on z-wave toggles, because people in my house like to use the paddles as much as the automation. …
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