Recommendation for roller shutters

Hi,
Unfortunately not. It does not really confirm the calibration. My thought is that the Somfy ILMO2 motor with electronic self management of Upper and lower end does not work properly with theroller shutter 3. Any experience?
The fields timeworn down and up are filled with 2307 and 2245 but it does not stop where I want. Only open or close.
TMJ

Hi Sergio,

I’m trying to achieve the same thing as you. I just started with the HomeAsssistant and want to implement Roller shutters that I can operate via Hass.io as well as via buttons on the wall.

I read a lot on the Fibaro Shutters 3 - but I read a lot of bad reviews on the Firmware. I have two buttons per shutter on the wall - one for up one for down.

Are you still happy with the setup choosing Fibaro Roller Shutter 3 and Aeotec Z Stick?
I also checked out these from Jinvoo (https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07KZL4YYC/ref=twister_B07PVHLVD5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1)

Nevertheless - these seem to be quite complicated to install into HASSIO.

Greetz,
phil

Hi Phil,

I’m very happy with Fibaro Roller Shutter and Aeotec Z Stick. I use 10 of them in my house (1 for each window), and it’s working perfectly. I prefer Fibaro over a WiFi switch like Jinvoo because if your WiFi is not working temporarily, or your Home Assistant setup fails for any reason, you still can use your shutters using your regular wall switch. I also have two buttons per shutter on the wall:

I don’t know what bad reviews you read, but I never had any problem. Feel free to ask me anything you need to know about them.

EDIT: My model is Fibaro Roller Shutter 2 (not 3): https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B00HSICQ4U
About the 3, I read that with some firmware versions it isn’t reporting the position correctly. I think it’s the issue you have read about. So, if you don’t need z-wave plus, and you are not sure if you are getting the “good” firmware version, maybe you can go for the 2 instead of the 3, and you should not have any problems.

Hey Sergio,

thanks a lot for the quick answer. Yes this is exactly what I read - the issue with the position for Shutter Version 3. Good point taking V2 - I checked Amazon but it seems they discontinued the V2. I will buy one of the V3 and test it.

The other issue I read is that the V3 comes from factory-side by working only with one button. You have to change the Firmware settings with some special tool to make it work with two buttons like you showed in your post.

I will order v3 and let you know how it works :wink:

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Hey Sergio,

so I just received everything and want to start on the weekend with the devices.
I got the Aeotec Z-Stick Gen 5 and the Fibaro Shutter 3 in V5.1.
V5.1 seems to be the newest Firmware without issues.

Before I start implementing just some questions.

How do you integrate the Aeotec stick in the Hass io? Is there some special tool needed or so?
After the aeotec stick is up and running I assume to unplug it from my Raspi and install the shutter with the cables in the wall plug (found this video - should be quite easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7nkGLL8Iwo)

Then I use the Aeotec stick with the battery to couple stick and roller shutter - right?
Is it straight away by pressing the button on the stick?

After that I should see the roller shutter popping up in the hass io with an entity ID, right?

Just want to make sure I have everything here and understood before starting. I also need to get some more cables (I just saw in the video) as well as some of these clamps (https://www.amazon.de/Wago-Hebelverbindungsklemme-Stück-Packung-BLV221412/dp/B07176GKT1/ref=pd_sbs_21_t_1/257-0048599-7097539?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07176GKT1&pd_rd_r=c22af3cf-7245-4293-ae3b-40c4512ec898&pd_rd_w=D1I31&pd_rd_wg=Etjkm&pf_rd_p=a2f6bca6-dcb1-4822-8e28-66b64b37970e&pf_rd_r=2FAV7B9A949D69NCDT66&psc=1&refRID=2FAV7B9A949D69NCDT66) to connect the cables.

Sorry for my noop questions - you see I’m pretty bad prepared :wink:

Hi Phil,

Here it is all you need to know to setup the aeotec stick in Home Assitant: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/z-wave (“Getting started” section is the most important one).

After you installed the Fibaros in the wall (and executed the calibration), and after you installed and configured the aeotec stick in Home Assistant, you can add the Fibaros as z-wave devices in the Home Assistant control panel. So they will be available as any other entity in Home Assistant.

Hey Sergio,

long time no hear :slight_smile: I was busy getting the stuff and cables.
Soooo what happened in the mean-time. I installed the Stick (works), I installed the fibaro roller shutters and calibrated them (works), I see the device in the Home-assistant and get info on battery and position (works).
What does not work - somehow I can’t trigger to move the shutter - any change in position in the Homeassistant does not impact the shutter.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong or how to trouble-shoot?
greetz

Ok ok - reboot of Home Assistant solved the issue… Now I can at least open and close the shutter. Works so far. Will test automation on percentage tonight… Keep you posted :slight_smile:

So I played around the night and it is working so far that I can open and close my shutter! Yeah! Up to now this only works from the main dashboard. I’m not able (or too stupid) to get some automation in place. As soon as I try to setup an automation I have no clue how to set the action trigger from the automation context menue. I do not find any option for open close… I’m confused…
Any idea or description available? Do you have automated tasks?

My idea is to recognize when the window is opened to open the shutter (use case - balcony shutter closed but I need to bring sth. to the balcony and it automatically opens the shutter).

And I have another issue - I see two z-wave devices from fibaro (I think I added the same fibaro shutter device twice) - and I have no clue how to remove it. Any idea?

This is how I open two covers with roller shutter 2 in an automation. More information can be found here: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/cover/

Hey Jolo, thanks a lot!

This helped a lot!
Now it works - I somehow alsways had errors assigning the entitiy_id in the service data!
With your screenshot I saw my error.

Now I will get the other fibaros in place :slight_smile: