I am a newbie to HA. I have 3 Neo smart blinds, 1 seems to be working but the other 2 are displaying “This entity is no longer being provided by the neosmartblinds integration. If the entity is no longer in use, delete it in settings.” See below config file. Any ideas what i am doing wrong?
you only need 1 ‘cover:’ the lower 2 blinds will start with ‘- platform: neosmartblinds’ and all the lines below it, having ‘cover:’ listed before each one most likely causing a configuration error.
Hi there all. I am a real green user at the moment. Just purchased a mini PC, installed ProxMox and created a VM with Home assistant over Christmas. All running fine.
I have been looking at my various devices I want to bring into Home assistant and one is my Neo Smart Blinds. I have worked out how to get the Integration installed and set up a few of my blinds in the configuration.yaml file. All good there.
I have some basic mushroom cards with the up, down and stop settings which all work fine. However, I want to add the favourite position to some of my older blinds with the “bf” motor. And the rest with their designated “set point” which are using the “k2” motors. While these later blinds can have multiple set points I have only have one programmed into each blind.
My grey area is working out how to include a button on the card to set the favourite set point on my older blinds, and the “go to next set point” on the newer blinds. This could be an “up” or “down” arrow. I guess it’s going to be a custom card template Lovelace or something with YAML but I just can’t see exactly where or what to do.
In the configuration.yaml I have the percent support “0” for the older blinds and “1” for the newer blinds.
The blinds are simple roller types that are hung from the top of the window where the motors are located. I have seen instruction on the percentages for getting blinds to these favourite / set points, but for the life of me I can’t get my head around how you create the buttons to undertake these actions. Can anyone please give me a pointer how to do this last part of the puzzle!
one way you could accomplish this would be to dive into the settings and create a script that sets cover to a specific position, which should trigger the saved position per the neo smart blinds integration. Once you have the script working the way you want it, you can add that script as a button to your dashboard. You could also use a custom card like multiple entity to make it look a little cleaner depending on what your dashboard looks like. I did something years back that’s mostly still valid: Custom Component: Neo Smart Blinds Cover - modified and updated - #16 by marshes
I had some troubles initially with the integration that mtgeekman build. So I have been working on improving that and built on it. Here is what I have build so far if anyone is interested:
I have added some great UI features to add entities.
I've been having huge issues with reliability on my Neo blinds in terms of smart connectivity - the RF remote always works but the smart controls have been awful.
I suspect it is down to the smart controller itself, but I have switched to your integration, so I'll keep you posted on how it goes
Hey just reporting that I had some issues this week as well the the controller as well. The request from the app and google home weren't workings either. But my physical remotes were workings. I thinking its a smart controller issue as none of the integrations were working.
The cleanup on the unique IDs is a big win, especially for folks who kept getting stuck with ghost entities in the UI. If you ever feel like pushing it further, a tiny note in the docs about picking HTTP vs TCP based on controller behavior could save some head scratching. I ran into that choice before and a quick hint would have helped a ton.
I've been using the NeoSmart app for a while, was a pain to connect to generic blinds, but eventually got it working. It does seem very buggy and regularly logs out or won't control the blinds.
Anyway thanks for all the efforts scodes, setup was easy and working 100% (when the controller behaves). Only issue I have is with the buttons selection giving me an error even though I have selected numbers. Can only get it to save on selecting 1 and 0.
My blinds have an RF remote along with the smart app/hub. Is it theoretically possible to get these blinds working with some kind of ESP32/IR combo instead of the app/hub?
I must point out that I massively appreciate everyone's efforts on this integration, (I'm nowhere near knowledgeable enough to know how to do this myself,) but my suspicion is that the hardware/hub is the main problem, so just wondering what other options are on the table. Everything else in my smart home is reliable, but I'd estimate that the blinds work around 30-40% of the time, which isn't really usable.
