I’ve just added Home Assistant to my house and am trying — but failing — to pair some older Z-wave controlled Bali Blinds with it. I’d appreciate any advice.
I’m using a Zooz 800 USB controller and several Zooz 800 repeaters, managed using Z-Wave JS UI.
The blinds in question are described here and I was able to find the following older threads referencing this (but the instructions didn’t work for me): here and here.
I’ve reset the blinds, and then I place them into inclusion mode (LED confirms this). I go to Z-Wave JS UI, click the hamburger menu, then the infinity sign, and the Nodes Manager appears. I choose “inclusion”, hit next, type in name/location, hit next, choose default security, hit next, and then I get 30 seconds of inclusion… during which no new devices are found. Any advice on what I might be doing wrong?
Notes
- Honestly this is the first attempt I’ve made to adopt a Z-wave device that doesn’t have Smart Start, so I may be doing something really boneheaded….
- Note that the blinds have to be added through a repeater, because they are far away from where the hub must be located. The repeater shows up as successfully connected in Z-Wave JS UI, and it’s quite close to the blinds.
- I don’t know anything about the security level supported by these older blinds (i.e., no encryption vs. S0 vs. S2). I’m assuming the “Default” option has me covered there (though I did also try adopting with S0 and with “no encryption” security and had the same result).
Thanks in advance for any advice!