Hi James, welcome to the Iceled forums
Straight away I can see why, if you followed the Litewave diagram, you would only get remote control of on/off on zone 1
I'm not sure where they came up with that diagram, but zone 1 is shown as the only zone with switched power (i.e. red power wire going to the ZEN controller).
I think it is trying to show that in large installations, which need more current than ZEN can switch, separate supplies can be run to the zones so bypassing the relay in ZEN.
The drawback with this very simple "fix" is that power on/off can't be controlled by ZEN. The way I'd suggest doing this would be to control an external relay from ZEN's power output, and have this relay interrupt power going to the zones.
But do you really need more than 10Amps for your kitchen lighting? How much current do your RGB Leds need in total? The reason your second zone is not under full control is that the Flexidriver has its own stand-alone colour change program and this is engaged when power is present but data is not - and that's what you would see in all but zone 1 if wired to the Litewave diagram.
As for ZEN being able to control each zone from the remote - yes this is exactly what ZEN is all about, however it is what is sometimes called a "scene" controller and this may be a new concept to you. This type of control scheme is very powerful in that you can pre-set different programs (scenes) which can be instantly recalled to produce different lighting schemes. Individual zones can be given different colours, intensities etc. and the settings are remembered as a "program". Then when you want a particular arrangement, it's recalled with a single button-press.
However, the process of editing a program may be more familiar to you in that it involves selecting a zone and using the remote to "dial-in" colour and brightness for each zone (which is how most people begin to think about lighting). While ZEN can happily be left in this mode you should soon find (once you have had a play) that it's far more convenient to set up a selection of programs for different lighting schemes and simply recall them as a single program when required. In the user guide these two modes of operation are called "Program Play" and "Program Edit"
