Open/Stop/Close cover with remote control

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I want to use a small remote like this to open/close my 3 shutters. It’s an RF remote, so a Broadlink RMPro can listen to button presses. I have two questions:

  1. Can I link a button press to an http command (my shutter modules respond to simple http commands for open/stop/close)?
  2. Can I use the open button to open/pause/open/pause… and so on, and same with the close button? I can’t find a way (maybe a template) to auto-toggle a button between two commands. If it can’t be done, I could only fully open or fully close a shutter.

Any help or opinions would be great!

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The answer to both of your questions is yes. The first question is covered by https://www.home-assistant.io/components/cover.command_line/

There are a few ways to do the second part. The automation that is triggered by the open button could set a binary sensor to “opening” or “paused” - and then take action depending on what the current state is. Or this may be covered by the state of the cover component.

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Thanks for your help. The device responds with opening/closing/stopped when asked about its state through an http call, so I guess I can use that for an automation. Thanks!

4

I don’t think that is possible as the Broadlink doesn’t listen continuously to RF commands. It can only learn RF commands and send them. You could use something like OpenMQTTGateway listen for button presses.

5

How about using a Hue remote/tap switch? Will it be able to toggle between open/close/stop depending on the state?

6

If you have some kind of gateway to integrate the switch into HA you can link any kind of action to a button press.

7

Do you know of any other type of simple RF to WiFi combination that HA can work directly with?

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Like I wrote, take a look at OpenMQTTGateway it can be flashed on many devices including the Sonoff RF Bridge.

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Yes, thank you, but apparently the Sonoff RF Bridge is very picky about the 433 remotes it can listen to. I’m thinking about maybe trying the custom component for Hue remotes…