I was able to successfully add my IKEA blinds to my Zigbee2MQTT instance without issue. During the process my blinds lost their connection to the remote that came with them.
I paired the remote back to the blinds but then lost the blinds in Home Assistant. It’s seeming like I can only have one or the other paired.
I wasn’t expecting that to be the case and it doesn’t make sense to me why it would be like that.
I wanted to ask if anyone else had this experience and if there’s anything I’m not aware of on why only one can be paired at a time?
jchh
(my username is my initials (and my first name isn't John))
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Yes, that happened to me as well.
However, you can also add the remote to MQTT and a simple automation will bring the functionality back.
Another option is to use the binding functionality within Z2MQTT which was designed for this very purpose.
That way your remote will always control your blind even if Z2MQTT is down, and you don’t need to set up a separate automation.
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jchh
(my username is my initials (and my first name isn't John))
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I’ve never fully understood how to do that as I don’t really understand what an endpoint is/means and how to send the setup commends from within the Z2M interface.
Do you know if a simple guide to explain these things?
Sorry mate, my knowledge of binding is limited to the fact that it exists and what it’s supposed to do.
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me will show up to answer your questions. In the meantime, there’s a couple of threads in this forum on binding. Try looking them up and seeing if what you’re looking for is already explained.