Is anyone aware of a way to control Levolor motorized blinds via home assistant? The blinds are z-wave controlled and come with a hub to use with their own app. I haven’t found any drivers for either controlling the blinds directly or integrating via the hub the provide.
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I am interested in this also. I see the Wevolor, but I would like to have support with the new hub and 15 channel remote.
Hey all! I found a way to get Levolor to work in Home Assistant! Look for the integration “Motion Blinds”. Follow the setup guide. I had to enter the IP address of my Levolor InMotion USB RF hub & my API key. Read the directions on how to get the API key. Took a bit to add to Home Assistant but now its see all 3 of my blinds!
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I’m also looking for a solution to this… I appreciate that you’ve found a solution utilizing the USB RF hub, @memphis2k but that’s $250 I’m not going to spend for this integration. I see that the remote is registered for the 433.925 MHz band, putting it in range of my Home Assistant’s software defined radio.
It seems like it’s just a matter of reverse engineering the communication protocol.
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Thanks! Just added the Motion Blinds integration and now have control of my Levolor blinds. We paid extra for the hub, only to find out that they would not integrate. BTW, to get the 16 character API key, you have to set up the Levolor app. Then go to the “about” page and quickly tap on the icon 5 times and the key will pop up. Get the IP address from your router.
Just ordered 8 blinds with the hub and looking forward to getting this sorted out.
FWIW - and the reason I came here - there’s a “warning” on the ordering page that says something to the effect of “InMotion Motorization is not compatible with remotes from 3 years ago.” Did Levolor change technology/radios in the past few years? I am thinking it’s no longer zwave and some proprietary protocol? Anyone have any definitive information about “old” versus “new” Levolor blinds?
Thanks!
I have levolor blinds I purchased a year or two ago. I was told they were z-wave compatible but it turned out they aren’t. They use a proprietary 433 Mhz band I believe.
Yes, I believe they are using the EU technology mentioned by the MotionBlinds integration (there are links to the supported mfrs). I got it to work easily with that integration, and I would recommend Levolor Blinds be added to the “known supported” list/links, but the GitHub issues area is a bit of a mess…they should split-out the projects so it’s easier to manage.
Yes! I was able to find my levolor hub using the motionblinds integration. Very happy about that. It doesn’t retrieve the names of the blinds from the hub so you have to figure out which blind is controlled by each object, but that’s not a big deal. I have the hub on a separate VLAN, so I had some trouble getting HA to be able to consistently see it. At first, it would appear whenever a blind did something (ie if I opened it with a remote), and then would become unavailable again. I tried changing the settings on my unifi controller and firewall rules as suggested in the integration instructions - I think I have it working better now.
TL;dr - if you don’t have the levolor hub on a separate VLAN, it seems to work great. If you do, and especially if you’re using Unfi/ubiquiti, be prepared for some work getting broadcast to work.
Still - I’m thrilled that this works! I had resigned myself to being unable to connect to the blinds from HA (or hubitat).
If I’m only installing a few Levolor blinds, the hub makes this a pretty pricey purchase. Just to confirm, you were able to make them work without the hub, right? Thank you!
Hi Gary - Sorry for the delay. No - that is not correct. I had the levolor hub from the start. I doubt if you can do this integration with HA without the hub in place as the blinds do not speak zigbee or zwave - at least not the ones I got.
Michael