cnicholson Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Hello all. I just had a water feature put in using all Pentair equipment (including color-changing underwater lights). Control4 driver works pretty well at replicating the native app (Intellicenter 2) functions, including changing light colors. I was a bit disappointed that I can't pick an arbitrary color, but have to pick from a list of presets. I believe this may be a hardware limitation of the Pentair lights/controller. We're about to start on our main pool, which will have many more lights. Not a big deal, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of an in-pool lighting system that will allow for arbitrary color selection AND works well with Control4 (ideally picking / saving colors from color wheel). The reason why I care is that I'll also have some interior RGBW lighting (visible from outside) and landscape RGBW lighting, and I'd like to (roughly) coordinate/callibrate colors on all the lights that are visible in back yard. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 I run the DMX engine system for my home and wanted the same lighting control for my pool. I ended up using this company and their pool lights, https://pallighting.com/pool-lighting/ They work and look great. Hope this helps. cnicholson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnicholson Posted March 2, 2022 Author Share Posted March 2, 2022 16 minutes ago, lippavisual said: I run the DMX engine system for my home and wanted the same lighting control for my pool. I ended up using this company and their pool lights, https://pallighting.com/pool-lighting/ They work and look great. Hope this helps. Thanks. Sorry, I am a newbie-- can you use Control4 App to bring up color wheel and change colors of groups of lights? Or is more like you set up configurations / scripts on the DMX side and then invoke them from C4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 colorwheel (soon to be on IOS/android), sliders for each color channel, etc. all controlled through C4. The engine just directs the commands to the lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 I personally created a light show using the Effect Switch driver (sub-driver for this system) that I just turn On/Off on a schedule. This way the lights turn the colors I want and not some packaged scene that most other controllers have built-in with colors I don't want. cnicholson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnicholson Posted March 2, 2022 Author Share Posted March 2, 2022 14 minutes ago, lippavisual said: I personally created a light show using the Effect Switch driver (sub-driver for this system) that I just turn On/Off on a schedule. This way the lights turn the colors I want and not some packaged scene that most other controllers have built-in with colors I don't want. Sounds like exactly what I want. What DMX controller / C4 driver are you using? Is this something PAL recommends/supports? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew luecke Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 By the way Janus makes a colorwheel driver which adds support to many supporting drivers (including ours at chowmain) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 DMX driver from Blackwire. It’s the Engineering Solutions Response-Box as the controller and has no overhead to your C4 system, unlike others out there. cnicholson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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