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Keeping my night vision with MQTT and LED's
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I'm planning a total rebuild of my electrical system this winter, and as I am planning for some short hand 24h races next season, one of the things on my list is to change all the lighting onboard to LED. I like the flexibility of LED strips, and as I was tinkering around the house I got an (brilliant) idea for the boat. By using RGBWW strips and a Shelly RGBW controller (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8DQntdtD4E) I can control and dim the lights through MQTT and through a dimmer switch as well. But the best part of it is that I can hook up only the R and the WW (Warm White) channel of the strip, and have two fixed, dimmable channels for each strip. As the Shelly controls RGBW - I can connect a strip on R/W and one on G/B and control two sets of strips per Shelly controller. 
This could allow me to build a complete failsafe system, where there is no way I can turn on white light by accident while sailing after dark for instance. 
Comments? Thoughts/ideas? Anyone who have done anything similar? 
Oh and I AM looking for cool ways to create a dashboard where I can have touch screen buttons to send MQTT commands to control the lights. Any pointers?
//Ranur
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You will be able to set triggers (from a dashboard, GPIO...) and actions to send MQTT data using the openplotter-actions app. It will take some time to adapt it to the new framework of openplotter 2 but the development is almost done.
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Related: https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-signalk


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(2019-10-28, 06:13 PM)Sailoog Wrote: You will be able to set triggers (from a dashboard, GPIO...) and actions to send MQTT data using the openplotter-actions app. It will take some time to adapt it to the new framework of openplotter 2 but the development is almost done.

Sweet! Looking forward to it!! Do you have some sort of teaser picture? Or link? Or both? :-D
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(2019-10-28, 06:21 PM)Ranur Wrote:
(2019-10-28, 06:13 PM)Sailoog Wrote: You will be able to set triggers (from a dashboard, GPIO...) and actions to send MQTT data using the openplotter-actions app. It will take some time to adapt it to the new framework of openplotter 2 but the development is almost done.

Sweet! Looking forward to it!! Do you have some sort of teaser picture? Or link? Or both? :-D

Not yet sorry, now our priority is to release OP2 ASAP, then we will be able to work on these extra tools.
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So as the panel is coming together, I am looking for something like @Sitesurfer's https://youtu.be/jO3Ik1AIfPA?t=63 
The Apple solution is unfortunately not for me, as I'm all Android. Curios to what will be available in OP 2.0.


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(2019-10-28, 06:20 PM)tkurki Wrote: Related: https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-signalk


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Have gotten the physical lights and the Shelly's to work as I want them. Have also hard wired a switch for each Shelly, which as a momentary switch also works for dimming. BUT as each Shelly controls 4 separate channels, each switch controls the same channels - simultaneously. The drawback to that of course is that I want each controlled individually - preferably with a slider or something for dimming. The homebridge solution didn't look bad at all - but it is apple, which really isn't my kind of fruit. :-o 
I understand Node Red is "God's gift to the Nerds", but haven gotten onto that path yet. Would that be a second best solution in order to achieve what I am looking for?

/Ranur
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i have some dimmable led drivers from an aquarium build that i used with node red and a few slider's on the dashboard it worked realy well.
those meanwell ldd drivers dim to zero.
and with a PCA9685, i could use it with a pi

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Being a +2hr beginner of Node Red - I obviously have some questions about how you did it! :-D Like stated previously, I am using the Shelly RGBW2, and was planning to use the MQTT to control the dimmers. Here are the MQTT specification for the Shelly: https://shelly-api-docs.shelly.cloud/#shelly-rgbw2-mqtt
Question is - how do I move on? Anyone done this in Node Red and care to share a flow?
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