We are to buy roller blinds for our new house and the blinds we can find can be supplied with either Somfy or PowerView motors - but any inputs to what is the best option of the two? Both in terms of native functionality in the systems and integration to for instance Home Assistant?
Somfy works great in HomeAssistant. But it starts getting acting up when you have lots of them like I do (24). But otherwise it works fantastic.
Okay great - do you need the Tahoma hub or do you somehow connect directly to the motors?
Does it work the way that you in Tahoma (if you are using that) that you create scenes, that then is usable in Home Assistant?
I think i need around 12-13 motors in total - at least initially 
Hey,
You do need the tahoma hub. The scenes are currently not usable in HomeAssitant, but i’m looking to implement that myself.
I have Kirsch blinds which use a somfy motor.
You can communicate directly with the motors from HASS using this http://www.rfxcom.com/RFXtrx433E-USB-43392MHz-Transceiver/en
I only use it for 2 blinds, so not sure about 12 though.
Hey!
Are you able to control the speed at which the motors operate with your setup? I’m asking as I’d like my black out roller blinds to as quietly as possible (and thereby probably slowly) roll up in the bedroom without causing enough noise to wake anybody up…
I have Bali Autoview shades that use the new Somfy Zwave electronics. They are directly addressed motors, no hub required.
Me too (have Bali Autoview). But I can’t find how to configure them to work with homeassistant. Do I need to configure them in configuration.yaml as Zwave devices, or need to add a Somfy component or…?
I don’t use the Zwave dongle method on Home Assistant, so I don’t really know how it appears as an entity once included into your Zwave network when using the dongle. The general instructions are here.
In my setup, I am using Wink2 as a Zwave bridge, so adding the Wink2 to Home Assistant automatically adds all of the devices/entities to Home Assistant. I prefer this approach just because doesn’t require Zwave setup on HA - simplification at the cost of introducing some cloud dependency (Wink & Smarthings depend on their respective cloud component to work).
If you don’t want the cloud dependency, but like the bridge idea, then Vera might be the way to go. I’ve been considering Vera myself if/when Wink dies.
thanks @yang3535 for the info. Yeah thinking back I originally chose HA in order to stay “offline” as much as possible (despite connecting my hue, nest, ring, etc systems)