Zwave controlled RGB Lights synching with music

[chimera]

Any ideas on how this can be done. Is there anything can make them similar to Hue functionality?

[JohnneyBoy]

I suspect the ZWave network would be too slow and inconsistent for a real time application like this, from my experience. It's not a fast communication technique by a long way.

I use quite a few raspberry pis to run various home automation around the house, so a wifi/network version maybe efficient enough. Although I have been working on similar ideas in the past and still found it lacking.

Really depends on how in sync you want the lights with the music.

[S-F]

I suspect the ZWave network would be too slow and inconsistent for a real time application like this, from my experience. It's not a fast communication technique by a long way.

I'm not so sure about this. I once created an event to turn a switch off if it became on and another to turn it on if it became off. The effect was a strobe. It was very fast.

[happnatious1]

Again this morning it took over 30 seconds for my heater plugged into a z wave appliance module to turn on. It happens randomly and is impossible to trouble shoot. I would look into DMX lighting for syncing to music.

May-10 6:06:43 AM Z-Wave Device: 1st Floor Main Heater Set to 255
May-10 6:06:09 AM Device Control Device: 1st Floor Main Heater to On (255) by/from: CAPI Control Handler

[mrhappy]

I'm not so sure about this. I once created an event to turn a switch off if it became on and another to turn it on if it became off. The effect was a strobe. It was very fast.

For a single device it is but if you look commercially then the standard across the lighting industry it is DMX512 which is 250kbps just for lighting. Z-Wave could be as slow as 9.6kbps (although I know in reality most people have faster devices) in places and also DMX is continuously sent as a signal repeating all of the time which Z-Wave does not do.

You'll cause the Z-Wave network to slow to a crawl and start having real issues with getting signals around attempting to send anything repetitive.

I have built a couple of ArtNet nodes from ESP01 board, a MAX485 driver and a XLR socket. For virtually nothing you can have a wireless DMX node that can be put anywhere and sends out DMX, using something free like DMXControl you can do sound to light.

[Black Cat]

I would investigate using a ZUNO for this. This gives you the Z-Wave control you require and the processing side is taken care of by a Arduino, There is a RGB dimmer example which should be readily extended to create different scenes or use a audio input to modulate the RGB unit. Just a thought, not really sure how it would all go together.

http://z-uno.z-wave.me/examples/rgb-led-strip/