OPTION 1. Use the Drop Length instructions from the IKEA website:
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.
OR, checkout the video
OPTION 2. The instructional video...
Use the control buttons on the front left side of the shade and then do this:
I'm noticing a pattern on my Ikea blinds with the newest hub update. About half of them are failing to report their status back to the hub after they change position. They respond to commands quickly, but the position/level never updates in hubitat after they move. I usually have to change them again to get it to properly update.
Not sure if it's a hub update thing, or if you can do anything in the driver to get better reporting after level changes.
Adding a quick note here that I've converted five blinds from their native hub to HE and are working well. Thanks for making this driver!
I also have seen the blinds status out of sync from actual state issue. I've added a line to the Rule Machine automation that drives them to do a Refresh of these devices +1 min after moving them, as pressing the refresh button on the Device page for each seems to do the trick. Hope this works.
Just updated the code slightly to limit the reporting frequency of the blind level in case some people have lot of blinds and open and close them all together. This should help protect the zigbee stack on hubitat from overloading in some edge cases. Remember to hit "configure" on each device after updating the code.
Question, any chances that you can add the updates to Package manager? I don't know how that works, but it would be nice to be able to quick push an update. Thanks again!
I'm actually using it to control a bunch of non-ikea zigbee shades (Graywind) and it's been working great. Using this driver was suggested by other users on here.
The only problem I've run into is that the battery levels always report as double their value. (e.g. when the battery is full it reports as 200%). Is there a simple way for me to modify the driver to reflect this accurately? I don't plan on using any actual Ikea shades in the future.
I know other people using the driver with Graywind/Yoolax shades have the same issue but I couldn't find if anyone found a work around.
I was hoping to create one group for all 15 of my blinds and utilize zigbee group messaging like I'm able to with other zigbee devices ( one single command instead of flooding the network with commands to all of them individually as far as I understand it). With the group messaging checked, the blinds don't respond to the group. When I uncheck it, they do respond, but lnot to a group message. Is this a limitation of the device firmware or something?
Would sound like it. It's designed for lamps and switches rather than blinds so it may be a case that blind group messages use a different command or does not have that ability.
Just FYI, Hub Firmware 2.3.1.138 knocked all my ikea fytur shades offline. I had to rollback to 137 and re-pair all the blinds to get them to work.
I tested this several times by installing 138 and re-pairing them. They would all re-pair on 138 but were not controllable at all. Rolling back to 137 was the only this that worked.
I'm using the same driver with all three of my blinds. None of the recent Hub firmware updates have caused any problems with them. They are all working fine. C-5 hub.
