Description

Overview

Colour Wheel for Control4 is a unique driver from Janus technology providing a sleek, colourful, and intuitive web interface for Control4 RGB, RGBW and Tuneable White (WW) Lighting drivers.

Running as a service on any Control4 touchscreen supporting webview, this is more than just a driver, offering a totally new and hugely enriched user experience.

The screen is dominated by the spectacular colour wheel, which allows for the easy control of multiple lighting channels, adapting to type of light controller – RGB, RGBW, WW. There is support for 8 scenes per room, with on-screen visual scene colour indication, and simple selection. The interface complements the existing Control4 lighting screen and is selectable from Control4 interface*.

* iOS and Android apps require OS3.2+

What’s New?

v511 – 17^th August 2023

• Fixed bug that could occur when loading the webview on OS3.3.3
• Allow up to 20 scenes

v506 – 29^th September 2022

• CCT drivers using native coloured lighting functionality now set using the correct mode.
• Added property ‘Auto-Select lights when webview opens’.
• Improved control for Fibaro drivers.

v502 – 28^th June 2022

• Corrected feedback & scenes on advanced colour wheel for legacy RGBW drivers.

v500 – 15^th June 2022

• Added support for all drivers that use the new native coloured lighting functionality.
• Added saturation control via an upgraded UI.

v408 – 22^nd April 2022

• Added support for LIFX LED lights (Chowmain and Axon Engineering)
• Corrected feedback for Fibaro drivers

v407 – 17^th February 2022

• Added Italian localisation

v406 – 5^th January 2022

• Added support for Tuya RGB/W loads

v403 – 14^th December 2021

• Added support for TP-Link Kasa Smart LED Light Strip (KL430)

v400 – 3^rd December 2021

• Introduced compatibility with the Control4 iOS and Android apps!
• Improved scene feedback when multiple lights are selected

Driver Compatibility

The Colour Wheel driver itself is directly compatible with a number of existing lighting drivers, and the accompanying Enhanced Lighting Interface driver (available here) allows existing dimmers to group as RGB/RGBW/WW fixtures, making them compatible with Colour Wheel.

Colour Wheel has full support for any lighting driver that uses Control4’s new native colour control. In addition, the following systems are also supported:

• ArtNet DMX RGB/RGB-M (available from the C4 cloud)
• Aurora AOne (coming soon!)
• Axxess DCM5 (available here)
• Collingwood (available here)
• Converging Systems ILC-400C and ILC-100C (available from the C4 cloud)
• Domaudeo RGBW (available here)
• Fibaro RGBW (available from Control4)
• Govee (available here)
• KNX Coloured Lighting (available here)
• LIFX (Chowmain suite available here, Axon Engineering suite available here)
• LiteWave wLightBox (available here)
• Mode eDin (coming soon!
• NexLux Wi-FI LED Strips (available here)
• Nicolaudie (available here)
• P5 FutureNow RGB (available here)
• Philips Hue (available from the C4 cloud)
• Rako Controls (Janus driver available here)
• Shelly IoT (Janus suite available here, Chowmain suite available here)
• TP-Link (available here)
• Tuya (available here)
• Velbus – Uses the RGB/RGBW/CT drivers, coming soon from the Janus Technology website.
• YeeLight (available here)
• Zuma Lumisonic (coming soon!)

We also support the following systems via the Enhanced Lighting Interface driver

• Adeo DALI/DMX (available here)
• ArtNet DMX (ExtraVeg, available from the C4 cloud)
• ArtNet DMX (NextGenTec, available here)
• Clipsal C-Bus (available from the C4 cloud)
• ColorBeam (available here)
• Control4 Centralised Lighting (available from the C4 cloud)
• Domaudeo (available here)
• Dynalite (available from the C4 cloud)
• FutureNow (availabler here)
• KNX (available from the C4 cloud)
• Lutron Caesta (available from the C4 cloud)
• Lutron HomeWorks (available from the C4 cloud)
• Lutron HomeWorks QS (available from the C4 cloud)
• Lutron LEAP (available from the C4 cloud)
• Lutron RA2 (available from the C4 cloud)
• Rako (available from the C4 cloud)
• Vantage InFusion (Cindev suite available here, Domosapiens suite available here)
• Vantage QLink (available here)
• WiZ Lighting (available here)

What interfaces does it work on?

Colour Wheel appears where you have placed it via navigator (for OS2, it will also appear under the Services menu).

Colour Wheel is available on any T3/T4 screens in your project. For systems running OS v3.2 or later, you will also be able to access Colour Wheel from the iOS and Android apps.

You can also view the interface from any browser, by navigating to the following URL, substituting in the IP address of your main processor;

http://controller_ip/driver/webview_controller/dist

Can I use Colour Wheel from my phone/tablet?

You can! From OS3.2, you can now access Colour Wheel from the Control4 iOS and Android apps.

Which drivers support effects?

Effects via Colour Wheel utilises custom commands on the dimmer drivers. The current list of drivers that support effects are:

• ArtNet DMX RGB / RGB-M (ExtraVeg, available from the C4 cloud)
• Aurora AOne RGB (coming soon!)
• Axxess DCM5
• Collingwood Lighting RGB/RGBW (available here)
• LiteWave wLightBox RGB/RGBW (available here)
• Philips Hue coloured lights (available from the C4 cloud)
• Shelly Iot RGB/RGBW/CT (Janus variant only, available here)
• TP-Link Kasa Smart LED Light Strip (available here)

If you want to use effects with a driver that currently doesn’t have any in Colour Wheel, please contact us quoting the driver name and download link and we will be happy to add support quickly!

What do I need to install?

The main driver to install is the Colour Wheel WebView – this provides the webview interface and automatically scans your system for compatible lights.

With the exception of Enhanced Lighting Interface, you should set up your compatible drivers in the usual way described in their documentation.

For Enhanced Lighting Interface compatible drivers, you should add 1 instance of Enhanced Lighting Interface for each light fixture you have.
From there, you need to set the properties Colour Mode to describe the type of this fixture (RGB/RGBW/WW), and use the device selectors to link the correct channels to the existing dimmer drivers.

Can I place Colour Wheel within the lights experience menu?

Unfortunately, the Control4 UI prohibits devices that are not specifically light drivers from appearing within the lights experience menu.

Colour Wheel can, be shown alongside Comfort, Listen, Security and Watch. This can be customised from the room navigator interface in composer.

For systems running OS3, you can also favourite Colour Wheel to the room by pressing and holding on the UI icon.

Will you be supporting more lights in the future?

If you want to use a driver with Colour Wheel that isn’t currently supported, please contact us quoting the driver name and download link and we will be happy to add support quickly!

I would like Colour Wheel to be translated into my language

If you would like translations in your language added, please contact us to discuss how we can achieve this for you.