A few years ago, I purchased several Z-Wave roller shades from ZebraBlinds, based on some of the reading in this forum.
My question is simple: Has anyone ever successfully paired a remote as a secondary controller (Hubitat being the primary)?
Overall, my experience is great. However, I've had to adjust the upper and lower limits a few times as they tend to drift a bit. To my knowledge, this MUST be done via a physical remote. What ensues is a nightmare of resets, exclusions, inclusions, repairs, ghost nodes, forced removal, reworking every Rule Based action, updating Hub Mesh, etc., etc. What should take 10 minutes, ends up taking several hours.
Am I missing something or have other users experienced the same thing?
I realize that my question may be poorly worded. This action is what I am referring to:
Were you ever able to do this?
I have Bali roller shades. I just have 6 installed this week so they are z-wave + Bluetooth and have 3 from 2021/2022 that are just z-wave only. When I purchased the original 3 I never bought a remote so I couldn't "hard set" the upper and lower limits. When I purchased these 6 new shades I purchased the premium remote that has 12 channels.
The installer configured the new shades to the remote so I did the following steps.
- Rest remote
- Reset the 6 new roller shades.
- Reset 1 of the older roller shades.
- Connected the 6 new roller shades to Hubitat.
- Connected the 1 older roller shade to Hubitat.
- Connected the premium remote to Hubitat.
- Associated (connected) all 9 shades to the premium remote.
I was then able to set the upper and lower limits on the old roller shades.
https://support.springswf.net/support/solutions/articles/30000028547-motorized-shade-owner-s-manual is the newest owners manual.
According to https://www.springswindowfashions.com/brands/ Zebra is not a brand of Springs Window fashion, so I don't know if their remote will work,
Thank you for updating this. After posting on some other forums and messing around for several hours, I did finally give in and go through the whole fiasco described above.
One of my shades has drifted (again) and I am ready to try again. Thanks to another, unrelated problem I created for myself, my understanding of Z-Wave secondary controllers is a bit better - albeit still at the amateur level.
I will utilize the info you have provided and update this thread on my success/failure.
