Hey guys, sorry for the new guy question. Ive setup a few switches and have been fine, but I got the new strip today. Got it paired to Smartthings using the QR, installed the LZW42 device handler, but I just dont know what to do from here. I am trying to figure out how to configure the special effects, but I must be missing a major step. Any advice or guidance? It says ZWAVE_S2_Authenticated, but firmware is blank.
It looks like the links off the product page take you to the instructions for the wrong product (they take you to the LZW42 RGBW Bulb page, not the LZW45 Strip page). The LZW45 page looks a bit out of date, but make sure you have the SmartThings LZW45 driver for the strip, not LZW42.
This page might help with using it once the right driver is there: https://support.inovelli.com/portal/en/kb/inovelli/products/led-s-rgbtw-smart-led-strip
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Here is a quick start for SmartThings.
In the app, go to the device’s page, 3 dot menu, Settings.
At this time, you have 2 easy choices for special effects:
1 - Quick Effects - Scroll down in the settings page. You can configure up to 5 of these. Pick the Color, Level, Duration and Effect from the 4 menu itemst. When you set one of these, it will create a child object that you can use to turn this specific effect on or off.
These are the simpler of the 2 ways to turn on effects. You’ll probably want 2.
2 - Pixel Effects - Farther down still in the settings page. You will enter 2 numbers here, separated by a comma. Refer to the chart in the instructions, p8 (1 -45). The pixel effect chart hasn’t been published to the support site yet.
The number you enter here is the effect number, a comma and then a number 1 - 99 for brightness. So if you want Aurora at max brightness, use 45,99.
Once again, a child object will be created to turn the effect on or off.
Grrrrrrrrr, mine says it’s running late!
Alright thank you guys, I had checked settings (with the wrong dth) and forgot to check again with the new one. Thanks for help, everything looks really good so far. Now I just need to figure out how I am going to trigger all cool new things 
Heads up, for HomeAssistant the install guide has a typo for the curl command in step #4 of the “Downloading the Config Files” section:
Current:
curl -o open-zwave/config/inovelli/lzw36.xml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InovelliUSA/OpenZWave/master/config/inovelli/lzw45.xml
Fix:
curl -o open-zwave/config/inovelli/lzw45.xml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InovelliUSA/OpenZWave/master/config/inovelli/lzw45.xml
Took me a sec to figure this out, was rapidly going throw guide and getting stuff setup on HASS. My issue now though is I don’t have a light entity? Only the following:
Anyone have any tips?
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Hey all – sorry for the delay on the instructions and setup pages.
I believe all but Hubitat pages are now up and available (Nathan is scrambling on HE) I knocked them out:
I need to finish showing how to setup the animations for ST, which I should be finished here in an hour or so. Done.
Again, thanks for your patience.
I’ll respond more to the rest of the comments likely later tonight or tomorrow – we’re excited to get these out!
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Mine is “running late” also.
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Got mine today. I’m with @Snell on it blinding when powered on. I wasn’t even standing that close when it came on and I’m seeing spots. Got it added to my HE but I’m totally lost as to what some of these parameters mean. I’ll need to mess around with it when I have some time to dedicate to sit and tinker. Would love to see some tutorials on basic usage within rule machine and then I could probably figure out out from there. I will say after messing with the colors on the device page, there’s some pretty good depth of color but there’s also some colors that don’t even remotely look the way they do on the device page. I had a red selected, like the red on the box this thing came in and the strip was completely purple. Maybe I’m just an idiot (entirely possible) and I have no idea what I’m doing but I figure I could at least get the colors correct. Will do more testing in the future
I will add that so far, I actually DISLIKE the manner in which this dims/powers on/off. Essentially it’s “stuttering” it’s way to the desired brightness/power state. Even setting the rate to a value of 1, I can see the stuttering effect. I personally would’ve liked to see a smooth ramp like a curve rather than a step effect to get it to transition. Not sure if that’s something that can be addressed in the future with firmware updates, but something I would personally like to see
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yeah tutorial on most of the settings would be great for us non tech savy users lol
Good evening everyone – what a day.
@Snell & @jason.motwani – just wanted to say thanks so much for the feedback, it really means a lot! I’ve started a page that will capture all this as we start the process of improving the firmware. Feel free to add anything there that I missed.
We will continue to flush out all the 404 errors and QR code mishaps over the next couple of days.
@adriang809 & @jason.motwani – definitely we’ll get a tutorial of what all the settings are/mean shortly. Unfortunately Brianna is out of the office (she’s our videographer), but when she’s back, we plan on launching a slew of videos that explains everything across the various hubs.
I think I’ve knocked out most of the info for SmartThings (EDIT: And Hubitat), which should be fairly similar to Hubitat in terms of usage, so if you want to take a look, feel free to do so here:
We’ll be adding more and more as time goes by and/or people ask us for tutorials.
Thanks again for your support and patience and have an awesome day!
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On the Vera page, there’s a notice with a link to a thread about changing the device type for the bulbs. Is that germane to the LED strip or a copy/paste artifact?
Is anyone else using this on Vera? I can’t get parameters to update.
@EricM_Inovelli – can you speak to this a bit? I’m assuming it’s just in regards that you use the same steps to add color to the lightstrip as you do to the bulbs?
@apd183 – you’re talking about this, correct?
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These lights are amazing! Any chance we will see the option to buy more of the 6inch extensions?
I have already “lost” both of mine. I made the mistake of showing one off to the family last night and my wife designated one for one room and a daughter claimed the other for her room… No fair.
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Yes that’s the message I was referring to. Thanks.
6 inch extensions are available now on the website!
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Yeah, that is what I have had to do to get color support for our bulbs and light strip in Vera. Maybe it isn’t necessary anymore with a newer version of Vera? When I included it a few weeks ago I didn’t see color and temperature support until I took these steps.
I’m happy to report that my lightstrip arrived today and I really like it. It paired up with Smartthings easily and after I changed the device handler manually I was able to access all of the functions. I have a couple of preliminary questions before I get a chance to really dive into it.
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Is there any documentation as to what the “Custom Effect” numbers mean?
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Will the extensions be available in sizes other than 4 foot? I would like some shorter non-lighted strips so that I can go up the wall between shelves and have the lights on the bottom of the shelves only.
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Is “individually addressable” a LED strip term or does this allow us to individually set each LED individually, like if I want the 42nd LED to be blue.
Great work! I will definitely be getting another controller and some extensions after I figure out how I want to stick everything. Keep it up, love your stuff!
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