Disable KIB backlighting?

[flyboy013]

@MapNerd Well ... I'm happy ? ? ? to say that I finally figured out how to turn off the panel backlighting for the 1/2 bath. It had bugged my wife to the point that she had thick paper covering the switches and the paper had the names of the button written on it. I had an incentive to figure it out, and I just did. I have now setup my coach to automatically dim the backlight at 8pm and turn if off at 9pm. Then turn it back on in the morning. All times are configurable.

As you may know, I have built a Smart RV system for my Mountain Aire ... complete with Alexa and Siri integration. It allows me to monitor and manage nearly everything thats accessible via Silverleaf and KIB. While my primary incentive for this development effort was for my personal use, I have developed the capability to so that it can be used by others. I plan on attending the Newmar International Rally in West Virginia in July and hope to show it to Newmar as well has coach owners.

 

[MapNerd]

I don’t have silverleaf. Any chance it would work for me?

 

[flyboy013]

Most definitely. The system interfaces with both the KIB and RV-C (Silverleaf) networks. Obviously the capabilities are limited to monitoring and managing the devices that are on the network(s) its plugged in to.

For my coach, I control the shades, lights, water pump, exhaust fans, and KIB panel backlighting via the KIB interface. Basically those thing you can control from a KIB panel. It’s my belief that different year and model coaches probably have a different addressing scheme and possible devices, so additional work is required on my part to ensure that the coach specified stuff is user configurable. Given that I only have one coach, I’ve been limited in this area.

 

[MapNerd]

Let me know if you want to test on a 2020 Ventana

 

[Mgriffith67]

Most definitely. The system interfaces with both the KIB and RV-C (Silverleaf) networks. Obviously the capabilities are limited to monitoring and managing the devices that are on the network(s) its plugged in to.

For my coach, I control the shades, lights, water pump, exhaust fans, and KIB panel backlighting via the KIB interface. Basically those thing you can control from a KIB panel. It’s my belief that different year and model coaches probably have a different addressing scheme and possible devices, so additional work is required on my part to ensure that the coach specified stuff is user configurable. Given that I only have one coach, I’ve been limited in this area.

Let me know if you want to try this on a 2016 DSDP 4369

 

[SteveMA]

Love to try on our 2020 4569 MA. Really want to also work on the somewhat irrational user page set up on the KIB LCD touch panels in our 2020 MA. example - We can turn some lights or function on/off from only specific panels, and not others... Like... getting to the bathroom lights, which are as far back in the bathroom from the entrance is down right silly. At night we take a flashlight to go to the bathroom. Kinda like when we were tent camping a few decades ago.
Flyboy013, PM me, would love to talk. I own a company that does very sophisticated control systems for Fortune 100 installs with a full design and development team as well as manufacturing from custom pieces to 10,000 pc runs. Been thinking for some months about how to resolve the next generation of coaches to avoid the rather messy way that the higher end coaches are currently cobbled together with cable and devices that are really not keeping up with the state of control electronics.