I have a bunch of Duolite shades, and the API lists them as type 9. I also have a single top-down/bottom-up Duette shade which is type 8. Home Assistant seems to be exposing both identically though. It’s very frustrating to me that this integration only exposes the bottom rail and not the middle rail.
The cover platform doesn’t seem to have direct support for top-down/bottom-up shades for some reason. Absent that, the powerview integration could always expose a second entity here for the middle rail, that just has the potential to be confusing with the position slider. I suppose the middle rail entity could interpret its position relative to the bottom rail, e.g. 100% open would mean “calculate the appropriate position based on the current position of the bottom rail” and moving the bottom rail could then just calculate a new middle rail position accordingly. That should be doable with the cover platform today, although I have to imagine that top-down/bottom-up shades aren’t that uncommon so maybe the cover platform should be extended to support this notion directly instead.
sorry to bug on this, curious on the state of tdbu (such a mouth full to write/say! top down bottom up) blinds, it looks like this PR was merged? 2022.7 perhaps?
I recently upgraded to HA 2022.7.3 — and looks like TDBU was merged already?! amazing. I thought it’d be in beta for much longer.
here is my understanding of how TDBU works via HA:
top blind is the top bar. 0 is when the bar is at top. 100 is when the bar is as far away from top as possible. bottom blind is the bottom bar. 0 is when the bar is at the bottom. 0 is when the bar is at the top. so:
if anyone was working on some form of middle ware for how to control blinds with remotes i’d love to see it because my node red is becoming insanity! 1 pico remote controls 3 blinds in one room. https://share.cleanshot.com/LXZxZy
I’m interested in the DuaLite Roller Shades (Blackout, Type 79) functionality. Looks like you wrote code to support this in the API, but its not yet implemented in the HA integration. I’m new to HA, and Python, but willing to lend a hand however I can (coding, testing, etc).
Right now I have to use scenes to control the back blackout shade (which actually isn’t too terrible), but would love the same concept as the TDBU with a separate shade.
@jhstroebel any shades listed over in the doco will eventually be added to the core plugin we however require the api to be updated to do so (which you have noted above)
We should only need to test shades that aren’t listed in the documentation as I have worked through all current shades testing. Once API is updated I will port code to core.
Awesome! I kinda figured as much… I started down the rabbit hole of how would I update the API (then realized you had), and figured I’d reach out. Thanks for all your hard work on this!
Hi Kingy444, I clicked on the link for “Instructions on how to setup Hunter Douglas PowerView scenes within Home Assistant” but it just took me to the Integration page and there’s no mention of how to set up scenes.
Do you have other instructions elsewhere to set up scenes?
Made sense because no other shade used two type codes for one type
