What is Lighty?

Updated 9 October 2026Lighty

Lighty is the central lighting control in your camper. With 5 independent channels you control everything around light: switching, dimming, colour and colour temperature, all the way to complete light scenes. You operate it with wall switches, with the dial on the SmartKnob or in the browser dashboard. All of them are equal and stay in sync, locally in the vehicle, with no cloud or internet required.

What you can connect

  • One RGBWW strip with full colour plus warm and cool white control
  • Tunable white from warm evening light to bright daylight
  • Or up to five individual lights, for example kitchen, bathroom, bed left, bed right and outdoor light, each on its own

Every light appears as its own tile in the dashboard and on the SmartKnob, with its own name, its own brightness and its own scene. So Lighty adapts to your installation, not the other way round.

The difference in everyday use

Lighty dims finely and colour-true all the way down, works completely silently and flicker-free, protects itself and your wiring out of the box and remembers your settings even after the leisure battery has been disconnected. More on this in the other articles in this section.

Also usable without a SmartKnob

A new Lighty responds to its push buttons straight away, without any setup. With Lighty Extension, each of the five push buttons switches its own channel. If a paired SmartKnob fails, your push buttons simply keep switching and dimming. Colours, scenes and settings come with the SmartKnob. More on this in "Lighty without a SmartKnob".

Good to know: addressable pixel strips such as WS2812 are deliberately not supported, Lighty is not designed for them.

Related questions

What can I control with Lighty?

Lighty controls all the lighting in your camper over 5 independent channels. Everything is possible, from a single white strip to full RGBWW lighting with colour plus warm and cool white. Or you connect up to five individual lights, such as kitchen, bathroom, bed left, bed right and outdoor light, each on its own. You set colour, colour temperature, brightness and entire light scenes just as you like.

Does Lighty work on 12V and 24V?

Yes, both without any changes. Lighty works in the range from 9 to 36V, so it is just as much at home in a 12V panel van as in a 24V motorhome.

Do I need a SmartKnob for Lighty to work?

Not necessarily. From firmware 0.4.7, a new Lighty responds to its push buttons straight away, without any setup. With Lighty Extension, each of the five push buttons switches its own channel. A short press switches, press and hold dims. With just one push button and no Lighty Extension, you switch channel 2. Even if your SmartKnob ever fails, your push buttons keep switching and dimming. The SmartKnob adds colours, white light (warm white and cool white as one light), scenes, the dashboard, automations, the wireless push buttons and the double tap for all lights.

How is Lighty connected, and what is in the box?

Connection is deliberately kept simple: power and light channels go into high-quality Phoenix lever terminals, almost tool-free, safe and reusable. You wire the push button to the supplied pluggable spring terminal connector and then simply plug it in. In the box you will find Lighty, four mounting screws and the pluggable spring terminal connector for the push button.

Which LED strips work with Lighty?

Lighty controls single-colour and multi-colour LED strips with shared colour channels, meaning normal single-colour strips as well as RGB, RGBW and RGBWW strips. Addressable pixel strips (such as WS2812), where every LED is controlled individually, are deliberately not supported. Lighty is not designed for them.

How many metres of LED strip can I connect?

What counts is not the length but the current: Lighty handles 20A in total. For example, a COB strip with 14W per metre draws about 1.2A per metre at 12V. Two strips of 3m each come to roughly 7A and fit easily. Several strips may also share one channel.

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