Fibaro Dimmer 2 & Philips 5W-GU10-Warmglow LED & Homey

Devices
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The Philips lamps are dimmable and get warmer when dimmed more. I like the idea. With Dimmer 2, however, dimming does not work: the light keeps blinking. Using a bypass doesn’t help.
Did anyone get these things to work?

  • I cannot find tech specs of the lamps.
  • Fibaro writes that some leds nead ‘leading edge mode’: how do I set that with the Fibaro app in Homey?

I experimente in manual setting the minimal dim% en max dim%.
I tried max dimming % 99 - 80 in single steps and I tried 70%, 60% 50% 40%.
Minimal dimming up to 10%.
The leds kept blinking.

The LED can be turned on/blinking by pulse-switch and by Homey. But (other than Homey) the pulse-switch does not turn the blinking off.

Hope someone knows…

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And how is the dimmer connected? U have a neutral attached?

3

Yes. I use a wire from the central point to connect with neutral.

4

Have you tried calibrating the LEDs via the advanced settings page? The Fibaro Dimmer should select the appropriate dimming then

5

I use the Warmglows (https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01KHIMK2U/ right?) in 4 rooms (fixture with 4 lights in it) and the Dimmer2.
No Bypass.
Some are connected 1-wire, some 2-wire (don’t know exactly anymore)
No problems with them.

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Are you sure you don’t have Philips SceneSwitch bulbs? Those can be “dimmed” by toggling the wall switch, but (AFAIK) they can’t be dimmed with a dimmer.

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You didn’t set this parameter to 3 by acident?
Or included it as an Alarm device?

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Yeah, I am sure i use dimmable leds, not the SceneSwitch ones.

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Hello Jan,

I cannot find this setting in the Fibaro app on Homey.

How do I get there, do you know?

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Hi Jeremy,

Do you know which settings are used?

Maybe I should try again without the pypass….

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Hi Pascal,

I tried to do that.

In the Fibaro app on Homey i can find the specific setting.

It sais “uitlezing” (i guess ‘reading’ or something in English. But when I click on it it does nothing.

I do not know how to activatie this.

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Just click on the text and you should be able to force auto-calibration with or without Dimmer bypass. If this doesnt work you can also try and power off the mains for your Dimmer 2 as it will also auto calibrate then…

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Sorry, I see now that this parameter is set to 3 by default, this means that your lights will blink, if they are set as Alarm device and they are switched ON.
Also have a look at your settings for Animation, that also can make the lights Blink

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I don’t know if you can just copy my settings, but except for the calibration, I didn’t change any settings.
Did you manage to start the calibration already?

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Thanks Jan,
But I use the Fibaro app within the Homey, and under ‘advanced settings’ I cannot find settings for “alarm” or “animation”.
Is there a way in this app to set parameters, besides from the available options?
I suspect that the Fibaro-app in Homey does not use alle possibilities…

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Thanks Pascal,
Somehow forced calibration does not work here. Calibration by power of and on did not work several times before, but i will try next weekend (when I have some more time to take the switch out of the wall)

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See the manual at: https://manuals.fibaro.com/dimmer-2/
all parameters are described there.
in this forum there are several descriptions on how to set “Advanced parameters” or raw-parameters.
They are settable under Device/Advanced settings/Raw Configuration Parameters.
(N.L. Apparaat/Geavanceerde instellingen/Ruwe Configuratie Parameters).

Example for a parameter setting (not yours)

I understand that I have to use the raw parameters configuration: 15, 1, 4
(parameter 15, byte 1, Setting auto OFF 4)

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Thanks again foor your effort ti help!!!

But the next problem occurs.

Dimmer 2 does not react to parameters.

When I fill in the parameters in “Device/Advanced settings/Raw Configuration Parameters”, there is no button to accept or enter. Only ‘back’ (terug) is available.

But 1 screen back the check button remains gray.

In the app I see that the dimmer is checked to ‘security mode’ (beveiligd in Dutch).

  • Could this bet he problem?

  • If so, how can I get is to non secure mode, now ‘raw configuration parameters’ do not work?

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If the checkmark is greyed out something is either a wrong value (invalid (characters)), or out of range, the wrong parameter/setting should have a red border around it.

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Thanks.

I don’t think it is out of range: I can see the dimmer witin Homey….

Or do I miss something here?

I nowhere see a red border also.

I cannot find a spot in the Homey-Fibaro-app where I can see wat parameters are set in my dimmer.