I have a C8 hub running .152. I recently decided to add 8 Fyrtur blinds to Hubitat after my Zigbee network seemed stable. I added 3 Ikea repeaters at the same time located near the 3 separate blind positions. All devices seem to be connected based upon the Device Health Status app and the Zigbee device listing. Previously the blinds were connected to an Ikea hub and worked perfectly.
Since connecting them:
The blinds have been inconsistent in responding to open or close commands. Sometimes they work and sometimes they do not. I have tried using both the Ikea Fyrtur Blinds driver and the generic zigbee shade driver. It does not appear to matter.
Certain contact sensors, both near the blinds are well as some others further away, have stopped reporting changes in status. Again it appears that they are still online but just don't report changes in open or close.
It doesn't appear to be a signal strength issue. For example, the blind furthest away for the hub reports a LQI of 168 and a lasthopRssi -58. The contact sensor on this window, which doesn't change status, also reports 164 and -59.
I have taken a number of steps to try and resolve including a soft reset, shutting down the hub for 1/2 hour, and the issue is not resolved. I reviewed the logs and there are no errors that I see indicating an issue.
I would appreciate any assistance in resolving this issue.
Is the rule issuing these commands all at once or is there a delay in between commands? My IKEA blinds were inconsistent prior to adding a 5 second delay between commands.
Thank you for responding. I had seen a comment in some threads about adding a delay so I included a 30 second delay between the open or close commands in the automation
did this fix it for you? i have 12 of these atm i just installed. They work awesome, but randomly they will not respond to the rule. I can check the log and see the command, as well as use the app to close/open them without issue. Just went in and added a 5 second dealy to see what happens.
The delay helped but didn’t completely fix the issue for me. I added programming to wait 5 minutes and check the status of each blind and open or close as needed.
Did you resolve this? I stumbled upon this post, and might have your solution.
The Fyrtur blinds had a firmware update at some point in 2023 that messed up some values saved in the blinds for some. To be honest, I am not familiar with Hubitat to be honest, but I have Home Assistant and was able to resolve my issue after stumbling upon another post on the internet.
If you are able to dive into the Zigbee commands for each individual blind (in Hubitat or wherever), please see if you can find these values. I can modify these in Home Assistant, and doing so fixed weird issues with the blinds and other Zigbee devices in their general area.
Zigbee device, cluster=pollcontrol. Change the values in this to the below.
checkin_interval=172800
long_poll_interval=4
Basically, the firmware update, in my case, messed up these values, and specifically had the checkin interval at an ungodly low number. It essentially meant the blinds were spamming the Zigbee network with checkins and choking the network. Once I made those changes, the blinds starting working perfectly.
Here's hoping you can find those settings/values, update them, and hopefully it works for you.
We can mess with the device Zigbee attributes using the [DEV] Knockturn Alley driver, but I spent zero effort making it user friendly so it's pretty daunting to use.
For what it’s worth incase others come across it. I made a rule to first refresh all my devices. Wait 30, open/close all blinds, wait 30. Refresh, and the. Repeated a if loop 8 times, saying If any of the blinds are closed.open then close/open. It was spotty for 2ish weeks but now it seems pretty solid. Now that I’m thinking about it my inovelli blues have been offline for awhile now and the blinds have been working better with them offline
