Integrating iblinds into OZW 1.6

dbrunt · January 27, 2022, 5:10pm

I set up input_number helpers for each blind’s desired tilt position when open:

type: horizontal-stack
cards:
  - type: custom:auto-entities
    card:
      type: entities
      title: Battery Levels
    filter:
      include:
        - entity_id: '*blind*battery'
        - domain: ''
      exclude: []
    sort:
      method: friendly_name
  - type: entities
    entities:
      - entity: input_number.bedroom_blind
        name: Bedroom
      - entity: input_number.kitchen_blind_1
        name: Kitchen 1
      - entity: input_number.kitchen_blind_2
        name: Kitchen 2
      - entity: input_number.kitchen_blind_3
        name: Kitchen 3
      - entity: input_number.living_room_blind
        name: Livng Rm
      - entity: input_number.patio_door_blind
        name: Patio Door
    title: Blind Presets

And here is image of my node-red flow:

They automatically open in the morning and close at night based on binary_sensor.night_mode

  - name: Night Mode
    unique_id: night_mode
    state: "{{ states('sensor.south_patio_illuminance_lux')|float(default=0) < states('input_number.outside_lux_trigger_point')|float(default=0) }}"
    availability: "{{ is_state('sensor.south_patio_illuminance_lux', 'unavailable') != true }}"

Bedroom only automatically opens in the morning when I am not home or if I am home and awake.
I use an automation script that runs when I say Alexa, good morning and either turns on the bedroom lamps if night_mode is on or opens the blind if night_mode is off.

dbrunt · January 27, 2022, 5:11pm

And the code for the flow:

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dbrunt · January 27, 2022, 5:24pm

These are the helper inputs which re-adjust the blind when manually changing the tilt position for the preset open position:

wmaker · January 27, 2022, 5:46pm

iBlinds have both “Binary Switch” and “Multilevel Switch” capabilities. I use the Multilevel switch to control the iBlinds. I don’t use zwavejs connected to HA (I use ZWaveJS2MQTT to talk to HA via mqtt), but if you have switch.name_of_blind, I would think you should also have a light.name_of_blind which would have a dimmer function, and it is this dimmer function that would be using the multilevel switch.

If you don’t get the iBlinds to close completely, it may be a calibration problem, and as a suggestion, try to do the auto-recalibration again.

dbrunt · January 27, 2022, 5:52pm

I too am using ZWaveJS2MQTT Add-on but with MQTT disabled and combine it with the ZWaveJS Integration and I see a single cover entity for the blinds.

AJHomeAsst · January 29, 2022, 3:52pm

I have run the calibration multiple times and using the switch the blinds randomly pick a position to open and close. Sometime barely opening and also barely closing. I want to get a little more accurate with the opening and close.

I’m struggling to learn automation, yaml and probably need to look a little deeper at some of the videos. But I can say that once I’ve created an automation, things become a little clearer.

Thank you so much for helping to grow in this ecosystem, it’s all appreciated.

AJHomeAsst · January 29, 2022, 3:54pm

Daniel, I don’t know if I’ll ever get to this point man, this is so awesome just seeing it in this form makes me want to do so much like this. I hope I can get their.

Thank you, you’ve gone far above what I was expecting to see. I really appreciate it.

dbrunt · January 29, 2022, 10:24pm

Hey, you’re welcome! You’ll get there and the journey will be great and rewarding. This community is awesome and always willing to help. Most of the answers and suggestions are great although sometimes they lack sufficient detail for noobs so don’t get frustrated, keep digging and persevering, and always be polite! I started HA about 19 months ago but recently find myself running out of things to do and learn… but my girlfriend is happier, and my PVR is less full! I recently converted all by legacy templates to the new format as I was getting quite a mix between them. Someone questioned Why, what would be the benefit? I replied Because I wanted to and for personal satisfaction of cleaning up what I felt was getting confusing, and…I needed something to do!. I got a …

dbrunt · January 29, 2022, 10:36pm

I never use the switch, always the multilevel tilt %. I found that the blinds’ internal 50% is never visually 50% with each blind being different. Also, if I close fully down, go to 50%, close fully up and then back to 50% that the 50% after fully down is at a different position than 50% after fully up. So I gave up on the switch and always use tilt position with somewhere between 40-60% being open and 97% being closed. This was the case even when I first had them in HomeSeer. Because each blind has a different % for being visually perfectly open (flat) I had to devise methods for tweaking that %. I also find that the % changes seems to change with battery level and also with time…they just seem to drift over time.

dbrunt · January 29, 2022, 10:41pm

Start with the UI for simple automations and you’ll get there with the YAML. It’ll get easier with time and practice. I don’t know if there are any of us who know and remember all the YAML well enough to sit down with an empty file and just start coding one at the keyboard, but there might be!

6 or 7 years ago I walked away from HA when it was mostly all YAML as it was far too complicated. The UI has come a ling way since then and makes slowly learning YAML a possibility.