Help Pella Insynctive Zwave Bridge

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I am a defector from Wink, but looking for some help with my Pella Shades. I was an early adopter to Pella room side Insynctive shades, and they work great with Wink but would love to get them set up on Hubitat. I can get the Pella Insynctive Zwave Bridge setup on Hubitat, but when I try and add a shade through the inclusion process, it will not get added. I understand it is not a supported device but was hoping because it was Zwave, it would still be able to get setup.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

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If the shades are Zwave, they should be able to be directly added without a bridge.

There is a generic shade driver in Hubitat, but I don't know if it will work, I am not that familiar with shades in general or this specific product.

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I'm a little confused about this.

I thought the shades had to be paired directly with the z-wave controller. The bridge (which uses some protocol at ~433 MHz and not z-wave) permits Pella remote controls to control the shades.

Like at @neonturbo, I think you need to pair the shades directly with Hubitat.

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Pella doesn't have much that I can see on their site. I am just guessing here...

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Found the guide for their bridge and the shades.

Looks like the bridge, remote and shades support 433MHz.

The shades also support Z-wave and must be paired separately with the z-wave controller

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Better google-fu than me. :grin:

I don't think the bridge would do much if anything in Hubitat, except maybe act as a repeater.

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I appreciate the quick responses. So what you saying it that I should be able to link each shade directly into Hubitat? using the generic zWave shade driver? I don't need the Bridge?

Thanks!

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I would say yes, that is what you should try.

They might come through as "device" which is a generic thing when Hubitat doesn't know what the device is, or can't identify it. If that happens, try the generic shade driver.

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@bill8 did you get this working. Be interesting to know as I really like the in-glass blinds on the Pella sliding doors.

If they could be automated in Hubitat that might be just the nudge I need to get that upgrade done. :grinning:

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I just found this so not very promising. However it has Wink on the list of non compatible hubs and you got it working so there is some hope.

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It used to say compatible with wink. Not sure when or why they took it away.

I also have a pella insycntive bridge using wink but want to switch over to hubitat. it's the last thing keeping me with wink.

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That and the fact that the hubitat have been sold out for several months.

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@chris10 @guacamole I recall seeing integrations posted on the ST community when I used to use that hub. I just searched and found a few hits and this one that mentions there is a telnet connection with the Pella hub. I don’t have the Pella hub or blinds so maybe this will help get you going. Many ST device handlers and apps can be ported over.

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I've just added a driver for the Pella Insynctive Bridge, using Hubitat's built-in telnet capabilities. The code is available here:

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I think the first generation Pella Bridge (which plugged directly into an outlet and supported a backup battery and had its ethernet connection on the side) includes the z-wave capability for Wink and possibly other hubs. The 2nd gen Bridge has a USB input and ethernet connection on the back and its specifications don't say anything about having 900MHz radio inside.

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Did the blinds pair with Hubitat?

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I am trying to get the blinds to pairs with the new driver, but I am unable to find the IP address of the bridge. I've connected to my network via ethernet, but trying to troubleshoot why I can't get it on my network.

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Thanks for coding the driver. I've been trying to get it set up the last couple of days. I am having trouble with the IP Address. I have the bridge plugged into my network, but I do not see it on the network, unsure if I am missing something. I was doing some research and see that I have 1st Gen Bridge and wonder if that has something to do with it. Any suggestions?

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I suppose it depends on your router, there should be a place to see what devices are connected and their IP address. I don't believe the Pella Bridge provides a device name to the network so you'd have to figure it out from what all devices you have connected on your network.

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This is great. Thank you.