possible to dim / pwm several channels together

[kr0815]

I want to dim up several channels together, but switch them off individual

a short test with a rule like

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on ledon do
pwm,4,1023,1000  
 pwm,5,1023,1000
 pwm,14,1023,1000  
 pwm,16,1023,1000  
endon

showed, that now the led´s go on one after the other, so one dims up in 1000ms, as soon as that is finished the next one starts.
Any idea / workaround on this?

Best regards

Klaus

[kr0815]

no reply so far

Does anybody usw a RGB LED stripe ? How do you dim up / down the 3 colors the same time ?

[Madbanana]

Hi, I'm still waiting for my strips to arrive so haven't had any time playing yet, however a workaround could be to dim in stages?

So instead of going to full brightness on each channel in one go, how about doing each say 10% and then move on to the next? Then repeat until they're all at full brilliance.

It may not be very neat coding and may not be visually what you want, but its what I'd try first. If it looks jerky, maybe reduce each to 5%.

Good luck, once I get mine I will give it a go. There must be an easier way!

[renearts]

As far as I have experienced the tasks are carried out sequentially, so this behaviour is expected. Also the fading is a blocking operation AFAIK.
I totally agree that there should be a neater method to fade several channels at the same time to be able to get a nice color fade.
A temporary workaround as Madbanana might provide a solution for now, but the requested functionality will take some time to implement as both the tasks and fading will need to be converted to 'multithreaded' operations.

[mrwee]

This sounds interesting. I'm using a H801 with espeasy R120 but can't seem to find a good dimmer solution.

[ledfreak3d]

the milight plugin works fine for rgb
sadly not for rgbw yet

[pmayer]

@ledfreak3d: Could you post an example?

[ledfreak3d]

ofcourse just compile the rgbw plugin with easy esp and you can control it via the milight plugin in domoticz
works good for rgb but not rgbw yet
but that's a limitation of domoticz not of the plugin

_P105_RGBW.zip

rgbw plugin

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[mrwee]

i have tried that plugin, but I often find the fading to be very unstable.

[ledfreak3d]

I must say I don't use it my self I use a modified version of quindor's lau code to contoll my aquarium lights
they fade very nicely
and are super stable

[papperone]

I must say I don't use it my self I use a modified version of quindor's lau code to contoll my aquarium lights
they fade very nicely
and are super stable

can you share some info? maybe woudl be great to leverage the algorithm used for fading if very nice and create a RGBW plugin which is more "universal" than the P105 which emulates a MiLihght device...

[ledfreak3d]

wel the fading in quindor's code is done automaticly it fades between levels instead of just selecting the level straight away

see http://blog.quindorian.org/2015/01/esp8 ... p-01.html/ for details on the code

would be great it it can be integrated into esp easy

[nygma]

I was just looking for the same. Does anyone know if this has been considered (fading in between PWM states)? I guess this is not something which can be implemented in rules.

[ledfreak3d]

Yep confirmed working with esp easy and domoticz with the correct script

[nygma]

I am sorry, I don't understand. What does this mean?