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Additional Settings — RGB / RGBW Devices
•Your LED strip shows the wrong colours. You set the LED Colour Type to match your strip (for example, GRB), and now the colours display correctly.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Device Additional Settings- Where are these settings?
- My touch switch glows all night. Can I dim it?
- My retrofit switch keeps ending up in the wrong state. Why?
Step-by-step
Device Additional Settings
Device Additional Settings- Open the app and tap Devices.
- Select the TRIAC Dimmer or the 2-Channel Dimmer.
- Tap Settings.
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What it does
The settings people never find
Most Beakn devices have an Additional Settings page with a handful of options that change how the hardware behaves. They are easy to miss and they solve exactly the complaints people usually put up with — lights that snap on too harshly, switch LEDs that glow all night in a bedroom, and retrofit switches that behave oddly on non-two-way wiring.
This page covers those settings. Each one lives on the device it belongs to.
Additional Settings — RGB / RGBW Devices
For colour lights, you can match the app's settings to your LED type and choose how the light behaves.
Setup
Additional Settings — RGB / RGBW Devices
1.Go to Settings.
2.Tap Devices.
3.Select the Room.
4.Tap the required Device.
5.Open Additional Settings.
Options you may see (RGB / RGBW)
•🎨 LED Colour Type:
•RGB
•RGBW
•RGB + Warm White
•GRB (based on your LED setup)
•🔄 Switch Operation Mode:
•RGB
•Regulator
•CCT
How to use
Fade In & Fade Out — TRIAC and 2-Channel Dimmers
Instead of snapping on, the light comes up gradually over a time you choose. It looks better and it is much kinder at night.
1.Open the app and tap Devices.
2.Select the TRIAC Dimmer or the 2-Channel Dimmer.
3.Tap Settings.
4.Open Additional Settings.
5.Tap Fade In & Out.
6.Choose the fade duration.
The setting applies straight away.
Available durations: 0.5 second, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 seconds, and 1 minute.
Good for bedrooms, living rooms, home theatres and any ambient lighting. It works whether the light is switched from the wall or from the app.
Real-life example: A 3-second fade on the bedroom light means the 2 am trip to the kitchen does not start with a wall of white light in your eyes.
Backlight Schedule — touch switches
Touch switches have a backlight so you can find them in the dark. The problem is that at full brightness they are a small lamp on your bedroom wall all night. A backlight schedule dims them at the times you choose.
1.Open the app and tap Devices.
2.Open the room.
3.Select the switch.
4.Tap Backlight Schedule.
5.Tap the + icon.
6.Set the backlight brightness, anywhere from 0% to 100%.
7.Choose the time.
8.Select Repeat Schedule, or pick the days you want.
9.Tap Create Schedule.
Set one schedule to drop the backlight to 10% at 10 pm and another to bring it back to 100% at 7 am, and you never think about it again.
Two-Way Switch Mode — Retrofit devices
Retrofit devices can work with two-way wiring, where one appliance is controlled from two physical switches. If your installation is not two-way, turning this off makes the switch behave more predictably.
1.Open the app and tap Settings → Devices.
2.Select the Retrofit Device.
3.Tap Settings.
4.Open Additional Settings.
5.Turn Don't Use as 2-Way Switch on or off.
Which setting do you want?
•Two-way enabled (toggle OFF) — use this when the appliance really is wired to a two-way switch. The app and the physical switch work together on the same appliance.
•Don't use as 2-way (toggle ON) — use this when there is no two-way switch. The physical switch then behaves like an ordinary switch, and you avoid unwanted state changes when you control the appliance from the app, Google Assistant or Alexa.
If a retrofit switch keeps ending up in the opposite state to the one you asked for, this setting is almost always the reason.
LED indicator — Smart Plug
The Smart Plug's button LED can be turned off, which matters if the plug is in a bedroom.
1.Tap Settings on the bottom menu.
2.Tap Devices.
3.Select the Smart Plug.
4.Tap Additional Settings.
5.Toggle the LED indicator setting.