When I look at my Hank RGBW LED Bulb (HKZW-RGB01) bulb in the device settings and dashboard, I get different color settings. The Set Color shows "red", as well as it does in the dashboard. When looking at the Current States the color shows "Cool". When I use the bulbs in an app and try to set it to "white", it doesn't take and sets the color to red. I can change the red with the color wheel, but there is still inconsistency. Also, is there a way to pick a color from a long list of color names instead of the color wheel?
It might be better if we thought of these types of Color Bulbs as being two semi-independent devices. Certainly the ZWave command structure does.
There's an RGB bulb and a White color bulb in the one physical device. Initially, I thought the reason for the split was Power.. the heat sink within couldn't handle both Arrays of LEDs on at the same time. But for whatever reason, since you cannot have both arrays on at once, you have to pick a Mode.. CT (color temp) or RGB. Your screen cap shows CT and therefore the values related to CT are valid, the values for RGB are simply historical.
As you can see in my screen cap:
With CT as the Mode, the name and color temp values are related to the Color Temp selection.
When I click the setColor button and switch to RGB as the Mode, the values change to match.
Thank you for the explanation. I will use the colorTemperature when I want to set it to normal bulb colors. For non-white, how do you accurately change your colors? I type in a hex number via the dashboard, but get a different number when I look at the device. The hue, saturation, and level settings don't match up to anything I can find online.
RM has color names and I just use that. I use it to indicate certain doors are open. Purple = Garage Door Open, for example.
Just an FYI, there is no such thing as color temperature in the schematic world of Z-Wave.
There is no such thing as measured adjustable color temperature settings using the white channel of a 4 channel strip.
There are gross, ugly and difficult approximations of color temperatures that can be done with the RGB channels, but there is no known way I know of to convert RGB into color temperature in Kelvin.
The "W" component of a given RGBW strip has it's own static color temperature, all you can do with it is dim it, and dimming it doesn't change the color temperature.
Zwave at most supports 5 color channels, red, green, blue, warmWhite and coolWhite all of which are 8 bit, which is fine.
So while RGB colors are well understood, and do translate back and forth to HSL, warmWhite?, coolWhite?, how could either of those possibly relate to measurable CCT standards...
Z-Wave and color?, it's a cruel joke.
Rant over...
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