Hi There,
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction, I’ve searched a lot, and so far haven’t found an answer.
I am intending to mount a bunch of high CRI Tunable white LED light strips in my kitchen. These are white strips, with two channels, CW and WW (cool and warm white)
I also intend to use circadian lighting on these strips.
I’m struggling to find the best way to implement these in HA.
basic RGB strips are easy, lots of controllers out there (my preferred is the zooz zen31).
addressable LED strips… WLED. done.
I dont see any built-for-purpose controllers for just white LEDs, although the zen31 does list in it’s documentation you can assign a white strip to two of it’s four channels and use it as such. okay, so that’s the plan.
(unless someone out there can point to a zwave controller built for tunable white strips!!)
The question is… how do i hook that up and get it into homeassistant so it behaves like any other color temperature lite entity (such as hue bulbs, inovelli zwave bulbs, etc) where i can just give it a K value, and it translates that to the appropriate levels on the CW and WW channels?
I think the answer is a light template, but I’m not sure where to start. the zen31 does expose all for channels separately to HA, so there should be a way to template a white light and translate that to values on two channels. Also, do i have to manually figure out the conversion from color_temp to channel level, or is that something the template can do?
OR…
using zwaveJS2mqtt, my other thought is perhaps there is a way to load a custom device driver for a zen31 to make it behave and present to HA as a white light device. (total shot in the dark here…)
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