Motionblinds joins Works with Home Assistant

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Thanks @jerry_bboy

The IPV6 remains a little elusive.
Threads uses IPV6, however, it even works in households that do not have any IPV6 enabled as long as there is a border router available, because threads devices establish their own network. So as long as my HA server has an IPV6 address, it is fine, regardless of my router.

Slightly different story if you want routing between networks to happen or would need to rely on IPV6 connectivity to the outside world obviously.

As you just confirmed there is no requirement for an internet connection, I assume that IPV6 support on your router (and a public IPV6 address) is not a requirement.

This part remains unclear on the website.
Can you confirm this? If not, who do you suggest I turn to?

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Hello,

I have a question and maybe someone already has solved it. I have bought venetian blinds with matter support Eve Motionblinds Motor CM-06-E-V. But when I tried to connect it I saw I got homekit version. I do not own apple bridge or apple phone to use it. I found that I can upgrade the firmware to enable matter support (its all over the motionblinds page), but when I have borrowed apple phone and apple tv (bridge) which meets requirements I am not getting “Upgrade to Matter”. Upon further check through the Eve app I was redirected to “secret” page in which I was told its still not rolled out for my motor.

When it is expected to have matter firmware rolled out for Eve Motionblinds Motor CM-06-E-V?
Or is there a way to connect it to home assistant withouth matter support?

Sorry if this was answered, searching and googling it did not bear any results. Or maybe I am missing something.

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I bought two Top-Down-Bottom-Up honeycomb shades (with 4 Eve motors CM-08-E), based on this very post, and it was a lot harder to provision than I think this post implies.

I am using all HA/Nabu Casa equipment including HA Yellow turned into a OpenThread border router using the internal antenna. But but the Matter over Threads inclusion is very problematic. After about 8 hours of work over three days I now have all 4 motors included and working even after an HA restart.

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I have existing bece non-motorized honeycomb blinds, can these be motorized?

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Not likely. In my case, the motionblinds version’s top rail that contains the motor and ables is twice as thick as the non motorized version.

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@jerry_bboy I see a lot of these messages in my log file.

2025-10-23 12:06:30.205 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity_component] Forced update failed. Entity cover.motion_shade not found.

Is this a bug?

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To answer my own question, no it is not.

The Motionblinds manual states the following if you want to override UDP settings:

alias: "Motionblinds polling automation"
triggers:
  - trigger: time_pattern
    minutes: "/1"
actions:
  - action: homeassistant.update_entity
    target:
      entity_id: cover.motion_shade

And that entity_id needs to be replaces with a valid one…
In my case:

alias: Motionblinds - update due to UDP not working
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: time_pattern
    seconds: /30
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: homeassistant.update_entity
    target:
      entity_id:
        - cover.topdownbottomup_0001_combined
mode: single
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Your HA Integration works with other vendors (e.g. 3DB), does your new CM55 bridge also work with the other brands listed?

I have 3DB (aka AMP motorization products) and their bridge communication protocol is really frustrating. Multicast is poorand it’s impossible to get status in HA on the shade positions and battery status! I’m always on the lookout for another option to connect to them. Ideally I’m hoping the CM55 can be used as a better option for the HA integration.
Thanks

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@undotcom No, our CM-55 bridge is not compatible with other brands. So this will not work with 3DB products. Sorry to hear that your system is not working smoothly.

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Hello Jerry, I have the motionblinds bluetooth (non eve) blinds and was wondering if there was a way to expose the current position of the blinds as a helper or number to home assistant? I tried using the helper on the page but it never updates the current position.

I am at my wits end trying to set these up with some other automations. Since it is clear that the android app can get the current position without the blinds moving upon connecting. If you have any advice or ideas for this I would greatly appreciate it. Would any of your bridges be able to help me solve this problem? All of the links on the website reference Eve, matter and threads and not the older models.

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Hello Brenster,

The bluetooth integration is not that great for the things that you want. My suggestion is to use either the CMD-01 / CM-20 or the new CM-55.

The last one uses matter and does not need any accounts and works completely local. The CMD-01/CM-20 also have a local API but need an account for the setup.

If you have any other questions just let me know.

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Hello

I’m having some trouble getting Home Assistant tilt my blinds. Up and down works perfectly fine. I’m using the CM-55 bridge. Added it to Home assistant, it recognizes my 2 blinds. I do have the option to tilt them in the UI, but it doesn’t respond at all to any tilting I set.

Using the Motionblinds app everything works fine.

When I do manual calls in HA, the code below works for up and down

action: cover.set_cover_position
data:
  position: 3
target:
  entity_id: cover.venetianblind_01

The code below doesn’t work for tilting, it’ s completely ignored, no log or anything

action: cover.set_cover_tilt_position
data:
  tilt_position: 50
target:
  entity_id: cover.venetianblind_01

Hopefully someone can help me

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What integration are you using ? Matter or the ‘old’ local integration?

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I’m using the ‘Motionblinds’ integration which is refering to Motionblinds - Home Assistant

I’ m not sure if it answers your question.

I did some deeper research myself, with the debug logging, it does send the targetAngle to the gateway

2025-12-25 21:52:56.243 DEBUG (SyncWorker_7) [motionblinds.motion_blinds] Sending message: '{'msgType': 'WriteDevice', 'mac': 'xxxx', 'deviceType': '10000000', 'AccessToken': 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', 'msgID': '20251225215256242', 'data': {'targetPosition': 89, 'targetAngle': 1.0}}'

I have the impression the decimal separator should not be there, but that’s just a guess.

I hacked some python code casting the targetAngle to an int, it doesn’ t send the decimal anymore, but still no result, that’ s not the problem.

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I have only recently started with Home Assistant, and automating the control of blinds is a big reason for me to have done so. So I find this incredibly interesting. Yet I also am I newbie to smart devices, and have many questions, such as:

  • How essential is the CM-55 bridge with my configuration?
  • How does my current configuration deal with Matter devices like the Motionblinds devices? What changes should I make?
  • What Motionblinds products fit my Home Assistant configuration and/or the CM-55 bridge? What should I look at when purchasing Motionblinds devices?
  • What protocol should a Motionblinds device have for me to make the most out of my configuration?
  • What does Thread have to do with this?
  • For those having a somewhat similar configuration as I have: what is your configuration to enable the use of Motionblinds devices?

Currently my configuration is as follows:

  • My Home Assistant configuration features the ZBT-2 and ZWA-2 as network controllers
  • I have no additional bridges or hubs apart from the controllers
  • The Matter integration is already installed on my Home Assistant instance, and it features a hub (currently no Matter devices are installed)
  • My current blinds aren’t ‘smart’ yet

I know these are broad questions. I am curious to read about experiences of those who have moved further on this road. Like some other participants in this thread I live in the Netherlands.

Have a nice Christmas and New Years’ Eve.

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I have one motionblind that I purchased from Eve as a test case for a window whose covering was damaged. It uses Matter over Thread. I’m very pleased and will probably phase in new units over time. If you don’t have a thread border router anywhere you will want one - my understanding is that the ZBT-2 can be either Thread or ZigBee but I could be wrong.

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You are not :slight_smile:

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After getting in contact with jerry_bboy it appeared that the problem was related to the firmware of the CM-55. I received the newest update and was able to tilt the blinds using the HA Motionblinds integration.

Thanks Jerry :slight_smile:

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What is the latest firmware and where can I get it?