It's actually on a rather slow transition, seems like 2 seconds... The transition parameter does not change it. It must be refreshing before the transition is complete, but for it to turn off it would have to have been off or level 0 at some point in there... which it never is. Odd.
The system Driver lists the first 5 effects correctly: 1) Fireplace 2) Storm 3) Deep Fade 4) Lite Fade 5) Police. I can report back if you want to add the others.
Played around with the Basic Z-Wave Tool. That revealed some interesting things. First I set it back to Device, wiped all states, and then set it to the system Fibaro RGBW driver and hit configure. Then I ran the Basic Z-Wave Tool.
Parameter 12 is set to -1. "Maximum Brightening Level", range of 3-255. Manual says default is 255, but I'm not able to change it for some reason.
Parameter 72 was set to 9. I was able to put it back to 1. I am guessing Next/Previous Effect is supposed to cycle through these... Manual says something about starting predefined effects, maybe so it runs the effect automatically upon switching on?
There's an extra pdf link back next to Param 14 for recommended input/output configurations (and a giant QR code). Haven't wrapped my head around that yet. My LED strip is just 4 channels plugged right in and the Param 14 is default. From the descriptions I would think "Rainbow" might be what I actually want...
I was able to change everything else where needed, and nothing else popped out as odd except these. Parameter 12 being negative and unchangeable seems like a problem though.
-1 is the same as 255
It’s the difference between a signed integer and unsigned. The hub assumes all parameter values are signed integers and coverts them.
I have a little formula in my drivers that converts them back to unsigned.
Aha! Good to know. That must explain why I couldn't set Parameter 1 to 255.
Yes, when using that tool to set it you need to use the signed value, so it goes 0-127 then wraps around to -127 to -1 (= 128 to 255)
For Parameter 14, yes it is very confusing, I starred at those docs for way too long yesterday.
The different RGBW modes are only useful if you have a 4-button switch attached to the inputs.
For rainbow mode you would need to set each channel to 3, so 0x3333 (in hex) which is 13107 for the actual parameter value in decimal.
Oh... I also meant to ask, did manually changing parameter 72 make the effects work on that device? Otherwise I am not sure how to make it start them. The ZEN31 as soon as you change the setting it goes into effect mode.
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