I am officially going down the Rabbit hole. I have ordered Switchbot Blind Tilt with the SB Hub 2. I have done much research on this and as of now I have enabled Matter on my C8pro and setup IPV6 on my router. As far as I know these are working.
I do have questions. This is my train of thought.
install the Blind Tilt and get it calibrated using the Switchbot app on my iPhone.
Setup the Hub 2 and add the blind tilt to the Hub 2.
Commission the Hub 2 using Homekit.
Add the Hub 2 to HE using the add device-Matter.
Once the Hub 2 is a device in HE change the driver to Advanced Matter Bridge.
Discover devices using the command page and get the blind tilts added to HE (as child devices?).
Pray I even get this far.
I use Hubitat with Homekit. All the devices I have are adopted using HE. All my automations are developed using HE. Homekit is mainly for using the Home app for it's UI.
I can use any help with this you can provide. Like I said, I have not used Matter or Switchbot before so the Rabbit hole is wide open.
That is almost the exact same steps I took except for a couple.
I commissioned mine with Alexa instead of Homekit.
Also, you will need to go into the Switchbot app after you add the hub and the blind tilts to the hub and expose the blind tilt to matter. In the hub click on settings. Scroll down till you see matter setup. Click there. Follow the steps to expose the blind tilts to matter.
Then commission your hub via Homekit and add to HE.
Ok, thanks. As a matter of fact I got most of my info from your previous posts. I will add your latest post to the pdf where I am compiling all the info. I try to go down the Rabbit hole prepared.
I just got everything setup and it is working. Here are some issues I came across.
When adding the SB Hub 2 to Homekit via Matter.
I was told to reset the Hub. I thought this meant cycling the power. But no, I had found out that I had to hold the 2 buttons on the hub for 15 seconds to put it in pairing mode. Once pairing was established it went smoothly from there.
When I added the hub 2 to HE and Discovered devices I found that it made a bunch of devices. I found that I was supposed to use the Bridge#271 Device#03, #04 and #05 to control the blinds. I thought it would use the device Blind Tilt 38 or AF or AB but no these devices would not control the blinds only Bridge#271 Device#03, #04 and #05.
I also found that it made child devices for the humidity and temp that are already made for the Hub 2. I guess 2 devices that do the same thing are better than none.
Once I got the SB Hub 2 into Homekit it wasn't too hard to setup everything else.
Thanks for all your help.
I don't remember having to reset the Hub when going through Alexa but I may have. That has been several months ago. I am glad you got everything going.
As for the child devices I grouped my blinds and curtains into groups in the SwitchBot app and it brought them over in groups. I only had three. If I remember correctly the hub let me deselect the buttons, temps, and humidity from coming over via matter. I may be remembering that wrong.
The main thing is you have everything working and performing as you want.
Hello @LearningHubitat, I thought you were the best person to help me with this.
I am having issues with all the blinds opening and closing when multiple blinds are called to close at the same time. They seem to work OK when called individually. These are the Switchbot Blind tilts that are matter enabled and can be controlled by Hubitat, Home app or Switchbot directly.
I have an Rule Machine rule that closes the blinds at sundown. I also have a Good Morning rule to open the blinds. The last couple of days some of the blinds do not open as expected and it is not always the same blind. They had been working well since I installed them. I tried checking the Hubitat logs but I really can't make sense of them. There are multiple entries when the blinds are opened or closed and it is confusing.
For testing, I made an automation with the Switchbot app that will close all the blinds at Sunset. I tested the automation and all the blinds closed as expected. So that makes me think that Switchbot is doing it's job. So that led me back to think that the problem is with Hubitat. The only thing I could think to do is reboot the Hubitat Hub. I did so and then opened the rule to close at sunset and ran actions and all the blinds closed as expected.
I am not sure if the problem has been alleviated or not, I guess time will tell. I was wondering if you have had any issues like this or have any advice?
My rule is set to trigger off a button press. I have ran into the instance where not a blind tilt but a curtain bot would fail to actuate and run. Since I could just simply push the button again and it would work as expected I honestly never dug much deeper into it.
You could potentially put in your automation an "if" statement to work as a back check to where if the system isn't showing one of the devices to have open or closed properly that it sends the command again. I would assume this would work the same as me pressing the button the button again.
I had thought about a back check to make sure they close, maybe I can do that if this doesn't clear up. At sundown today they all closed which is after the HE reboot so maybe I have cleared up the problem. Like I said they had worked great for a few weeks.
Thanks for your feedback.
No problem. I only will have a failure once in a blue moon as my papaw used to say. They are few and far between so hopefully this does get you taken care of.
After some inspecting of the logs I am still confused. When they opened this morning there are 3 entries. Office blind opening-Office Bling windowShade is opening and Office Blind windowshade is open (digital).
At Sunset when they were supposed to close I get 2 entries Office Blind windowShade is opening and Office Blind operational status is 00. I closed them with the Switchbot app at 6:12pm Sunset was at 6:09pm. The rest of the blinds closed as expected.
What I can gather from this is that Office Blind operational status is 00 means that there was a problem with communication to the blind therefore it did not close.
What bugs me is that some of the blinds closed and some didn't. But I don't know what to do about it. They worked all week without a hitch. Any Suggestions?
The 'operationalStatus' is reported from the device via the Matter Bridge, and code 00 means 'unknown'. The possible values are 00-'unknown', 01-'open', 02-'closed', 03-'opening', 04-'closing', 05-'partially open'. I don't know in which cases the bridge will report 'unknown'...
