I have five of these in a room. I use Room Lighting to group them.
This will group them and create a virtual device (will be the one under "activator device" where you'll give it a name). The virtual device can then be used to command the shades as a group.
The other nice part is that you can easily set a schedule. My wife's desk is in this room so I automatically open/close the blind during the work week (Vary Light Settings per Time Period). If you use modes, you can configure per mode as well.
If you copy my setup, the blinds will auto open/close at the specified times and you can also use the activator device for ad-hoc changes.
I'm not sure on the Alexa part. I use the community integration for Google Home so I just have the activator device pushed over. I presume you'll be able to add the activator device to Alexa.
Correct, no dice on the remotes. They use non-standard ZigBee that doesn't play well with the hub.
You can certainly use the remote through a few different means.
- Setup rules in Button Controller. This will give you the option to specify the blinds setting with each button type (e.g., single tap up is open, single tap down is close, double tap up is fully open, double tap down is fully closed (the buttons are numbered)).
- You can add the button device as a "means to activate" and "means to turn off" to the Room Lighting instance.
