Under-cabinet Lighting - Replacing with Intelligent, color LED

[Buddyl33 (Brian Engel)]

I built my home about 1.5 years ago and something I did was have under-cabinet lighting installed in the kitchen. The current setup is xenon bulbs 3-4 per cabinet and everything is wired to a switch by the sink. I’m mulling around in my head what it would take to replace those lightboxes with LED lighting that could change color and I could control from SmartThings (either on it’s own or via the switch or a combo of the two).

I figure the hard part of having existing electrical all wired up is done. Just not really sure where to go from there.

[TN_Oldman (Don)]

Here’s a couple projects I bookmarked that are like what your asking.

Under Cabinet Dimmable LED Strip Lighting

I started a kitchen LED lighting project this past weekend. I have a galley-shaped kitchen, with a row of cabinets on each side. One side had a tiny little florescent light wired to a light switch. The other side has no lights, but several outlets. No easy way to run wires between the sides. I got a strip of one-color warm LEDs from hitlights.com (these), along with a magnetic dimmable driver (this one). This allowed me to connect the LEDs to a regular 110W Z-Wave dimmer switch. I went with the Cooper (Eaton now) RF9540. I have a SmartThings motion sensor in the kitchen, along with an Echo. When I walk in, the lights fade up to 50%. If I need brighter, I can ask Alexa, or just walk over to the wall switch. Works great so far. Now I need to do the other side of the kitchen. The plan is to …

Under Cabinet Lighting Project has gotten out of hand... Wife is more pleased than expected

The wife and I decided that we were tired of half-finished projects around the house, so we’ve agreed to move forward with finishing the kitchen. About a year ago our stove died on us, leading impulse buy of a fridge in the clearance aisle. When we got everything home, we discovered that our brand new to us counter-depth fridge was 1/4" too wide to fit the fridge opening, so we did some frantic rearranging of the cabinetry and gave the fridge a wall all to itself. As soon as we had counter space, we sort of just… stopped. We never finished painting where the fridge had been or finished up the trim, etc. Our original under cabinet lighting was installed by me when we first moved in three and a half years ago. It was the cheapest halogen puck light kit that Home Depot had available. And l…

I’m sure there is others with even more examples and ideas.

[JDRoberts]

( i’ve moved this to projects so you can get individualized responses based on your own set up.)

Sounds like an exciting project! You might take a look at the quick browse lists in the community – created wiki in the project report section for the kitchen list and the lighting list. Both of those should have a number of examples, including the ones that @TN_Oldman suggested.

http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Quick_Browse_the_Community-Created_SmartApps_Forum_Section#Quick_Browse_Links_for_Project_Reports.2FQuestions