Ikea Blinds

It's a pain to deal with. When my mode goes into "Evening" I have the blinds set position to about 2/3rds the way, but I've been trying to add in "if I have already closed them, then don't open them to the 2/3rds position.

I've been trying to leverage Node-RED to "check the position before allowing the automation" but have been getting inconsistent results from calling both "ping" and "refresh". I'd be curious to know what other's experiences were. But bottom line, the need to do that is the fault of the blinds not giving that battery level unless asked for it.

Use this one that another poster modified, it works great:

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So I bought two of these for the bedroom. So far so good, I have them paired to HE, and can do open/close/pause/refresh etc.

Question Right now if I set level to 84, it closes exactly where I want. How to I set this spot to the 100% closed level (sorry I know I can google this)

Thanks! The WAF will be good on this one, she youtube searched how to pair this when I got home with it!

Use the down button on the shade itself to get to that spot (clicking it a second time to stop), then quickly double tap that same button and you'll see the shade raise just a little bit then return back to that spot. That is the shade telling you it set the endpoint

Thanks for that! It's set now. I guess Simple Automation Rules do not have any blind/shade actions. I made a couple of quick rule machine rules with time triggers to open and close. works for me! These have to be my favorite smart devices! Our bedroom windows are south facing and this is just awesome.

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One additional question... I held both buttons by the battery in order to zigbee pair them, but when I did, it appears the little remote no longer works. Any suggested order of operations to get two blinds paired with both the remote and HE? I did have the remote paired to both blinds before I added HE...

Thanks.

The remote will not work with a Hubitat-paired blind.. you can see above in this very topic that some were trying to get a driver going, but no one has reported success yet.

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Thanks... I skimmed this thread as you can tell from my questions! Still love the blinds, but didn't love the price. I spent more on two blinds than I did for everything since moving to HE (I got a lot of ebay IRIS stuff very very cheap)

I would love to have 10 more of these blinds, but I think my WAF limit was two (after she found out what I spent on these!)

FYI,

Drop Length instructions from IKEA website & video:

How do I set the maximum drop on the blinds?

Move the blinds to the desired position using the remote control or buttons on the blind. When the blind is in the desired position, you can double press the up or down button on the blind to save this position as the new maximum level of extension.

Yes, just like step 7 in my instructions. The video will certainly help some folks, though. Thanks for sharing that!

Right. Which is why I added the comment with extended information there and not somewhere else.

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FYI here is a maintained codebase for the Ikea blinds Hubitat drivers from the originator of the code that served as the basis for the drivers above: [RELEASE] IKEA window roller blinds

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Hey guys, I am in the process of ordering some of the Ikea blinds, but based on this thread it's unclear if the Tradfri repeater is required to get the blinds working with the Hubitat Hub or not. For those of you that have the blinds working through Hubitat, do you need the Ikea repeater as well?

I have two blinds and I used one of the two repeaters that came with them in the box. The driver in post 286 works great.

@rick.guthier Thanks for your answer. I didn't realize a repeater comes with the blinds. I will not buy a separate one then....I assume they can easily pair directly to Hubitat using the driver mentioned above.

Thanks for your response!

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If you have any problems pairing, look in this thread. I don't recall having any issues, Good Luck! I wish I could afford to buy more of these, my daughter wants them in her room!

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After trial and error, the 4 IKEA blinds in the living room work fine with one repeater. Having 4 of those hanging off one USB adapter or each repeater plugged into its own USB adapter takes a lot of real estate on the wall outlet. Other rooms have 3 blinds, and only one repeater per room. The repeater appears to report battery level, Battery level percentage is flaky for the first few days until the ZigBee mesh is rebuilt. I am not using their gateway. ST custom device handlers allow full operation of the blinds and the remotes work as designed with their own custom device handler.

Everything else has been moved from ST to HE. The only reason I am keeping the ST hub is for the button functions. Moving the blinds to HE before the button is supported means the WAF drops because the button isn’t supported. So the blinds are paired with ST for now until someone ports the ST device handlers to HE drivers.

Hi,

using Ryan780 Driver, I am new to hubitat. It's working fine but I am getting frequent debug messages from one blind.

Ignore invalid reports

dev:412020-12-18 14:03:02.253 debuglevelEventHandle - currentLevel: 0 lastLevel: 0

dev:412020-12-18 14:03:02.229 debugattr: 8, value: 00, descValue: 0, FYRTUR block-out roller blind

dev:412020-12-18 14:03:02.223 debugdescription:- read attr - raw: 1E37010xxxxxx002000, dni: 1E37, endpoint: 01, cluster: 0102, size: 08, attrId: 0008, encoding: 20, command: 0A, value: 00

What is this telling me?
Is that something I can/need/should fix or just ignore?

cheers
Chris

Debug messages are not necessarily a problem. Some developers build-in the capability to toggle Debug messages. I recently updated my driver to @a4refillpad 's new driver that allows for:

"...better integration with dashboard slider and alexa when max open level is set. Also improved the final state reporting so should always end with an open or closed state so that dashboard is able to open or close blinds with single click."

I don't know if he's added the Debug logs toggle switch yet but @csteele did so using his code and posted the expanded code here.

OK. So I switched from the original Ryan780 to the driver in post 274 above that allows the state of 0 and 100 to be reversed. The updated driver is working fine with my Fyrtur blinds except for ONE THING:

I created Dashboard Tiles for the Fyrtur blinds and chose Template to be "shade". The tiles seem to work properly and update state correctly. But the tiles DO NOT update background color. I believe they should change color according to state. And these colors for each state are defined in the dashboard template for "shade".

I also have a couple smart curtains that use the Zigbee - Aquara Smart Curtain Motor driver by markusl and it is designed to make the curtains function as a shade. I also have dashboard tiles for these curtains set up using the same "shade" template and they DO update background color according to shade state (On, Off states only) So I don't believe the problem is with the "shade" template for the dashboard tiles.

Does anyone else have this issue? Are your dashboard tiles updating background color based on state of your Fyrtur blinds???

Please help

Hi,

Can somebody explain the difference between the SetLevel & SetPosition?

Getting confused!