Gledopto drivers not working?

agapimmo · April 3, 2024, 5:12pm

Hi community
I followed these steps Hubitat/drivers/gledopto at main · mconnew/Hubitat · GitHub as well as these steps Zemismart Zigbee 1/2/3/4 gang light switches - #63 by ADDs
but I did not manage to make things happend.

Both drivers were installed. The first one with parent and children but I cannot switch on/off. When I do so the colour turns from whatever I have it to green.
I saw that there is a physical button on the controler (says reset) and when I click on it it turns as well from whatever colour I have chosen to green. Maybe it is because of that ?

Other than that I could not control the light and change its temperature and as for the colour I could change almost everything but the reds...

Is this normal ? Would it function like that with the drivers ?
Thanks so much for your help
All the best
Yiannis

dnickel · April 3, 2024, 6:18pm

Not sure if this helps but I have been using the Generic ZigBee RGBW Light driver built-in for years with no issues.

agapimmo · April 3, 2024, 8:46pm

Thanks so much for your answer.
Do you mean the first or the second driver of my msg ?
(GitHub or zelismart ?)

dnickel · April 4, 2024, 2:25am

This is the driver I use from HE without issues.

agapimmo · April 4, 2024, 7:46am

Hi @dnickel
thanks so much for your reply
I changed the driver to generic zigbee rgbw light but nothing happens. Now I can't even change the colours. Here is the screenshot of the product

maybe the driver is not the right one for this model ? Do you have the same one ?
thanks again

kkossev · April 4, 2024, 8:47am

Yiannis,

In my opinion, the most recent drivers for your GLEDOPTO GL-C-008P device are here:

github.com

mconnew/Hubitat/blob/9d894fd19a3577684ec167b3246f7cbe8e6512df/drivers/gledopto/README.md

# Gledopto GL-C-008 RGB+CCT LED Controller 2ID
There are multiple products sold under the GL-C-008 name and they aren't all the same. There is a variation which has been problematic for Hubitat users which presents itself as one device with two endpoint id's (0x0B for RGB and Ox0F for CT). Hubitat doesn't recognize the second endpoint and so it hasn't been possible to fully be able to use this device.  

The approach I took was to create a separate child device driver for each of the two endpoints and treat it like two independent devices. The parent device implements the capabilities which expose on/off commands and attempts to be smart about which child device to turn on. It keeps track of the colorMode so that when you turn it on, it only turns on the appropriate child device. When you turn one of the child devices on, it will turn off the other child device. My reasoning is to limit the total brightness and heat output of an LED strip.

## How to use
Add the three device drivers to your Hubitat device. You can directly import using the following 3 url's to download directly from GitHub.  
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mconnew/Hubitat/main/drivers/gledopto/gledopto_2ID_RGB_CCT.groovy
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mconnew/Hubitat/main/drivers/gledopto/gledopto_2ID_RGB_child.groovy
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mconnew/Hubitat/main/drivers/gledopto/gledopto_2ID_CT_child.groovy

Once installed, configure the device driver for your device to use the main `GLEDOPTO ZigBee RGB+CCT Light GL-C-008 2ID` device. Click the On command, then the off command and it will populate the child devices. Go to the CT child device and run the configure command.

## Found a problem?
I can't provide any support for this, I simply don't have the time. I released these in a state of "it generally works for me" as to wait until it's working perfectly would mean waiting many months before I would release it. The hardware sat on the shelf for 2 1/2 years before I finally got around to making them work (while waiting for someone else to do it first 😁). I welcome pull requests for any fixes or improvements.

This set of drivers does not mention the GL-C-008P model explicitly, but it is worth trying.
Follow strictly the instructions how to assign the main driver, then press F5 in the browser and you should see a child device created at the bottom of the main device page.

These GLEDOPTO controllers have 'specifics' that make them not 100% compatible with all Zigbee hubs. My feeling is that Gledopto has been patching their firmware, until it worked satisfactorily with Philips Hue hub, and they have stopped there. ... Everyone's target is to get a share of the Philips H*e market,,, (A lot of OEM put the asterisk in the Hue name because of some legal concerns, most probably,,,)

agapimmo · April 4, 2024, 9:02am

@kkossev thanks so much for your reply!!
I tried this yesterday with the two child devices but it did not work
So I guess it doesn't work.
If so is there any zigbee rbgw led controller out there that is perfectly compatible with the HE c8 ? I don't care to send this back. As I am new to all that, I am trying to find compatible devices and go on.

Thanks again so much for all your help

kkossev · April 4, 2024, 9:12am

Let’s give it a last try with this driver.
What exactly was not working? Give some more details here.

This is the official list of Hubitat compatible devices:

agapimmo · April 4, 2024, 9:24am

@kkossev I just tried again.
So I followed the instructions, assigned the main driver (clicked save device then configure then on then off then f5) and I could see the 2 children devices.

No on and off works on the main device

no color changes work on the other two devices

So it doesn't work at all in my case

dnickel · April 4, 2024, 4:12pm

Did you hit Configure after the driver change?

agapimmo · April 4, 2024, 6:53pm

yes of course

dnickel · April 4, 2024, 7:37pm

I have almost the same device but the "P" is missing.

endpointId: 0B
application: 01
manufacturer: GLEDOPTO
model: GL-C-008
softwareBuild: 2.0.2

agapimmo · April 5, 2024, 6:33am

@dnickel
So I guess it has to be another behavior by my model ?