Issue: Google Home recognises the Hubitat Virtual Shade as a lighting device and not a blind.
I have setup Virtual Shade devices in Hubitat to represent the blinds in my house. I have Node-RED getting the device position and then forwarding this onto the KNX bus to set the blind position.
This works well with the one exception, Google thinks this is a light device and not a blind, therefore more natural commands like "Up" or "Down" can not be used but "On" or "Off" works. It's not a big problem as "Okay Google, set lounge blind to 100%" works well as everything (xx%) in between.
I just flag this as something that should be corrected for consistency and avoid confusion.
Hello,
I suppose this is happening also with regular blinds and shades (not only with virtual shades): I've few blinds set up on my HUB but they all appear as Lights (Within Light Groups) in Google Home. It may be as they are treated as dimmers they are all falling within the same category?!
I have the same issue, but Google Home actually does support blinds. I have two Aqara blinds engines, and when linking Aqara directly to Google, they show up as blinds and not lights.
For integration with Hubitat I have created Virtual Shades and integrated with Aqara over IFTTT, but these shows up as lights. Quite annoying actually, as Google will then control my blinds with the lights.
I ended up using a virtual switch in Hubitat instead to open/close, as this is not grouped with the light.
Would be great to have "Virtual shades" showing up as blinds in Google Home.
