Chowmain - Lighting Leaf Driver (FREE)

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Overview

Lighting Leaf is a leading supplier of high-quality, energy-efficient, Long Life & Cost-Effective LED lighting solutions. We are an industry leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of custom indoor & outdoor LED lights. Our products are optimized for commercial applications, residential lighting fixtures, along with custom-built design services. Their mission is to provide our customers with top-notch solutions for their lighting needs with superior customer service while maintaining highly competitive pricing for their clients.

This free driver requires Control4 3.3.3 or later to communicate with the range of Lighting Leaf products.

Note This solution is cloud based and as such requires an active internet connection for operation.

Driver Features

The driver for Control4 provides the following functionality.

• Bi-directional control and feedback
• Cloud based integration
• Import of all Lighting Leaf Lights and PIR Sensors from the customer account
• On / Off control
• Brightness control
• Color Temperature control
• RGB Color control
• Advanced Lighting Scene Support
• Color Wheel Support

FAQ

What devices will this work with?

This driver has been developed and tested to support the following Lighting Leaf devices.

• LIGHT (dimmable + RGB/W devices + On/off)
• SENSORS (Motion, etc)
• GENERIC (Future devices)

How does this communicate?

This agent communicates to Lighting Leaf's cloud server

Can I Group Lights in Control4?

At this time (April 2023), Control4 does not provide native Light Load group support of Colorwheel based lights. As an alternative, you can use the Chowmain Light Group driver to group lights and control as a single light

How do I find out more information about the driver?

Please see the links below for more information about the driver.

Driver Link

 

[Andrew luecke]

G'day all,

 

Just letting you know that a new build has been released (20240424): https://chowmain.software/drivers/control4-lighting-leaf

This mainly improves the feedback of the lights and includes our new performance code. Full list of changes are:

• [Control] Improve Realtime Feedback channel to resolve a potential issue with communications dropping out, which also affected control (Agent)
• [Bug] Fix Misc Bugs (All)
• [Improvement] Improve compatibility with old Announcement Agent installations (Sensor)
• [Improvement] Improve Variable Handling (All)
• [Troubleshooting] Major Improvements to Diagnostics (All)
• [Misc] Add more defensive code to protect against potential issues (All)
• [Performance] Introduce some MAJOR performance improvements. Some logging tests of 10000x logs demonstrated speed gains from 6600ms to 60ms processing time. This is seperate from some other previous improvements yielding improvements of 680ms to 47ms on a Core series for another type of operation. Some other tests showed speed gains of 22ms (best case) on EA series controllers to less than 1ms average for certain operations.
• [Performance] Reduce HTTP connections required