TL:DR at the bottom.
I live full time in an RV and the wife and I just bought a brand new 44' bunk house. She is finally going to let me realize my dream and retofit the home theater and lighting in the living room to suit our needs more easily.
I have the home theater planned to revolve around a Harmony Home Control remote (with the Harmony Hub of course). One remote to rule them all, right? I am currently at an impasse, the harmony hub based remotes can control all manner of home theater and home automation devices, the problem is, I don't live in a house, I live in a RV.
All of the lighting in an RV is 12 Volt. You have an inverter/converter that charges deep cycle 12 volt batteries to run the essential functions in the trailer, but you get your 120V AC power from a 50A cord that plugs in to the "shore power" at the RV park wherever you happen to park. The 50A power runs the big stuff like the A/C and Refrigerator.
The harmony hub based remote can set up "activities" like "Watch a Movie" and it will power on all of the necessary devices, select the proper inputs for your movie watching, and you can set it to dim the lights as everything else is powering on. It is compatible with the Insteon hub and it's compatible switches and devices, and Insteon makes an inline dimmer that works with the hub and would be placed behind the paneling and out of site to work with the Harmony Hub remote to control the lights. The only problem is that it is designed to work with 100-240V ac stuff. All of my lights are 12V led.
TL:DR Does anyone know of an inline dimmer that would work with the 12V led lighting that I have in my RV to allow me to control them with the Harmony Hub Remote? An inline switch like this would be perfect, but the voltage won't match up.
Submitted July 13, 2016 at 03:19AM by KAcotton http://ift.tt/29BCqZ9 homeautomation
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