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SK6812 RGBW LED strip

Lights · Lighting

Requested

1 report: 1 asks for support.

Reported with 1 integration: Circadian Lighting.

What people report

IntegrationIn Home AssistantIn Apple HomeWhat they saidSource
Circadian LightingRequestedDedicated cold-white channel support proposed, PR closed
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When adding a RGBW LED strip such as SK6812, circadian lighting tries to set the temperature using either RGB, XY or CT modes. Those modes result in a translation from the specified values to RGBW values. When translated, the resulted value enables the cold white LED which results in a pink light instead of a warm white. This pull request introduces a new mode -RGBW- where it calculates the values from RGB values after disabling the white LED. That results in a pure white colour when max RGB values are set because the chip can interpret those values correctly and a warm white colour after …

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PR #239 · 2023-10

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Identifiers

BrandGeneric
ModelSK6812
CategoryLights