IKEA FYRTUR block-out roller blind support

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Hi folks - for those who are interested in pairing the blinds via ZHA: I recently tried pairing 5 blinds with HA via ZHA. I paired each of the included repeaters via ZHA - after resetting them using the pinhole - and then placed the repeaters around the house, including in the rooms that would include the blinds.

After pairing the repeaters, I then tried two methods for pairing the blinds with HA. First, I carried each blind and placed it right next to the HUSBZB-1 USB controller that I’m using. I held down the up and down buttons on the top of the blinds to reset them. I then added some of the blinds to ZHA. I noticed that the paired blinds didn’t show a battery status. Also, after having installed the blinds, I saw that either the up or down arrow would be grayed out.

I then tried pairing the blinds directly with the nearest repeater, again placing the blinds right next to the repeater. I experienced the same result with unresponsive battery status and greyed out arrow(s).

A potential fix: per guidance from Carlos_Roldao (thanks @Carlos_Roldao), I began exploring the “Manage Clusters” option under the shade device settings. Caveat: I’m a complete noob, having only been involved in HA for about a month, and having only implemented ZHA yesterday.

To get the battery status to report:

  1. Click on the Manage Clusters button in the shade’s device settings
  2. Under the Clusters section at the top, select “DoublingPowerConfigurationCluster” from the pull-down menu.
  3. Under the Cluster Attributes section, choose “battery_percentage_remaining” from the pull-down menu. Not that this is near the bottom of the pull-down menu. Be sure not to select anything for “battery_2” or “battery_3” which you’ll see first in the pull-down menu.
  4. Also in the Cluster Attributes section, click the “Get Zigbee Attribute” button. A number should now appear in the “Value” area. For me, this now appears to fix the battery status issue. When exiting out of the Manage Clusters section, I can now see the battery status reflected for the shades.

To resolve grey-out buttons in the HA UI:

  1. Click on the Manage Clusters button in the shade’s device settings
  2. Under the Clusters section at the top, select “WindowCovering” from the pull-down menu.
  3. Under the Cluster Attributes section, select ““current_position_left_percentage”” from the pull-down menu.
  4. Also in the Cluster Attributes section, click the “Get Zigbee Attribute” button. A number should now appear in the “Value” area.
  5. I find that unlike the battery status process mentioned above, it helps to move the shade and poll the status a couple of times. I then move the shades, either via a functioning arrow in HA, or manually via the buttons on the top of the shade. Then I click the “Get Zigbee Attribute” button again, and get a different number in the “Value” area. I do this a couple more times, once at the top shade position, once or so in the around the middle position, and then at the bottom shade position.
  6. Exit the Manage Clusters section and the up/down arrows. For me, the arrow buttons now function correctly.

The above fixes seemed to work whether I paired the shade directly with ZHA in the configure section, or via a repeater.

Hope this helps for folks trying to integrate the Fyrtur shades via ZHA.

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