Brunt Blind Engine support or component?

Third party integrations
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Hi danpow,

Have you had any success with these?

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These are pretty cool… I have a few windows though, this could be costly!!

Their marketing dept need their head read, or a medal.

I give you - the Brunt plug! https://brunt.co/en/plug.html

That’s bloody hilarious!

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I still don’t have the Brunt Blind Engine linked with HASS - i’ve put my error log on the hass github and in a forum topic, but there has been no pickup/insight as of yet.

To your other questions:
what do you think of them as a product?

  • they are the neatest (reasonably priced) blind motor I have found to date. I believe they require cloud access, and they auto-update firmware on powerup. If you want to reset the up/down limits, you have to unpair/repair, which is a bit fiddly and time consuming. All in all, even without HASS integration as yet, I am happy with it. If i get HASS working with it, I will order more.
    Are they quick enough?
  • They are very gentle - my 1.8m drop blind takes about 15 to 20 seconds or so to unfurl. I thought that would feel slow, but it’s fine. It’s also a similar rpm as the cheap in-blind motors you find on ebay etc.
    How noisy are they?
  • They do make noise, no question, but they aren’t aggravating. It’s definately smooth-sounding, rather than clunky or rattley. Plus, i have them setup to open/close when i’m not in the room so it isn’t a big deal. From watching tutorials on getting in-blind motors up and running, or arduino / microcomputer diy shizz, the Brunt is quieter.
    Hope that info is useful.

If anyone feels they can offer insight to my install error:

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Thanks danpow,

I really want to get some of these but I might wait for them to work with Hassio first. Is there a way of getting the right people to help get them working?

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I got a response from the component developer. The problem relates to python versions below 3.6. I’m on 3.5, so will wait for a fix - which the developer has already pushed!
looks like possibly the next HASS rev will solve my problems. If you’re on python 3.6 or above though, the component should work without errors.

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How do I check which python I am running? I don’t use it for anything.

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i’m sure there are many ways; possibly check your hass log for references.
I navigated to srv/homeassistant/lib to find mine

it’s not necessarily important though - the dev has fixed the issue, and it will be merged in the next minor hass revision.

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Hi all, I built the component for this as I’m running one of their Blind engines here, and I have mine working nicely, with some automations that set the closing % percentage based on the sun position and some other factors, you can see it in my git repo! Indeed the fix for Python < 3.6 is in the Dev branch of HA so should be out soon.

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I can now confirm the brunt blind engine works in 0.77 with python 3.5. thanks @eavanvalkenburg :slight_smile:
@pretious - the integration with hass seems pretty solid. I’ve ordered a few more of the blind engines. Fingers crossed at some point they can be hacked for local only operation!

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Hi Danpow,

After your last post I ordered a couple of these blinds to see what they are like for myself, but I’m not having much luck. One of them is saying that it’s already connected to another user and Brunt are ignoring my messages, but that’s nothing that you could help me with. The second one works ok on the app but I can’t connect it with HA. Could you give me any pointers for getting the one that works ok connected with HA, I am using Hass.io, and from what I read Hass.io always keeps python up to date, so I am assuming that I’m using the latest version, I have added this script to my config file;

cover:

  • platform: brunt
    username: BRUNT_MyUserName
    password: BRUNT_MyPassword

but I’m getting this error;

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try without the ‘BRUNT_’ in front of your credentials.

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Hi danpow,

That’s worked!! I’m up and running, thanks.

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Can anyone advise on this please?

Thanks

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it looks like the last line of the error - client forbidden - is the problem. check your syntax, check the blind engine works on the app, and go from there.

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It works perfectly on the app. The problem is occuring when I am trying to set up the brunt platform in Home Assistant

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Hi @danpow - I’m also experiencing the same issue. “Client Forbidden”. Are you aware of a fix for this? Blind engine works in app, and my username and password are correct in config.yaml

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Old tread but do these stil work? Im thinking about ordering some. Is it a cloud app or does it run local.

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Did you ever fix the issue with the Brunt blind integration to Home Assistant

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Anybody knows if A-OK brand {BLE instead of wifi) is similar to Brunt? The configuration in configuration.yaml checks out ok but it does not show up in States.

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Hi,

My brunt blind engine works quite well with home assistant.
One thing I noticed though on my firewall is that the brunt devices communicates very frequently with their server.
More specifically:

  • 30,000 flows in 24h it connects to thing.brunt.co
  • About 11mb are uploaded and 11mb downloaded per 24h

This is quite excessive for a small IoT device… I am worried a bit about privacy concerns too (why 30K flows in a day…)

I blocked these flows in my firewall, and as expected the device does not operate in local mode. I was wondering if anyone has similar issues, and if there is any workaround.