Recently Somfy released a native Zigbee motor for tilting blinds. It’s not advertised on Somfy’s website, but their dealers show the datasheet. The datasheet says Oct. '23, so still relatively new.
Has anyone found this device and tried to use ZHA to communicate with it?
Update: I found the device on Somfy’s Pro website, but not in their online store. Tilt 50 WireFree™ Through-Shaft Zigbee (External Battery) - 1241783 | Somfy (somfypro.com)
I too would be interested in this if anyone has any feedback?
I got word from Sofy. The zigbee version isn’t available to retail customers. Hmm… To buy this device, we just create our own product line of home blinds, set up a B2B account, integrate with said window blinds, buy a few thousand, and then resell them here. Simple Unfortunately, I’m busy this morning. Anyone else volunteer?
The first part is true: They won’t sell the zigbee device to loser customers–only “Big Customers”. The second part could possibly happen with a motivated person. lol
I found the unit here so definitely is possible to purchase!
FYI: The link is broken. BTW, I also found a small webstore in Florida selling it, but it was dodgy at best. I’m guessing it was a repair part they want to unload without Somfy taking notice. The only commercially available version uses RTS, which is expensive and requires special hardware to integrate with HA.
I’ve contacted a couple of blind manufacturers in the UK and I have literally just had a reply offering the ZigBee edition but they say it’s very new/needed special pricing from the factory… And was over £450 for a solar powered one.
Might be worth contacting these guys, https://www.blindspares.co.uk. I emailed them a month or so ago about the Somfy Zigbee blind motors and they said they can order them from the supplier. Within 24 hours the products I requested was listed on the site and I think within a week the item was at my door.
I should point out however I am still trying to integrate the blind properly with ZHA, seems some people have had success but its not as simple as joining it to your Zigbee network. Likewise joining it to there own hub seems to require some installer software (Tahoma Pro) not available to the public.
Hi everyone,
I’m new to Home Assistant and this forum, having set up my HAOS instance over Christmas.
I came across this post about Somfy motors and wanted to bump it and add an idea.
I’m currently using the Somfy Tilt Only 50 RF, and anyone else using this will know it’s stateless (doesn’t remember position). I’ve found a UK supplier offering up to 25% off retail for the Somfy Tilt Only 50 Zigbee (code: 1245600) which is truly smart.
I have 10 blinds to upgrade, but nearly £1k feels steep. I was thinking if others are interested, we could coordinate a group purchase and potentially negotiate an even bigger discount.
Example pricing I’ve had so far:
Bulk order of 20 motors = £72.60 each (plus P&P).
If you’re in the UK and interested, let me know how many motors you’d like, and I’ll handle the coordination with the supplier.
Thanks!
This version is slightly shorter and focuses on clarity while maintaining the friendly tone.
I would be very interested in this group purchase - I’m in the UK and need 4 of them.
However, has anyone managed to get them working fully with HA?
The Somfy website says it works with the “Tahoma Switch”, which itself is mentioned on the Overkiz HA Integration page as working via local API.
I’d also be interested in a group buy. I need a minimum of 4 units, but possibly 8 if the price is reasonable.
We’ve got two bay windows and can’t really justify the extra expense for the 4 sides that are only 500mm wide! But if you can negotiate a better price it might help in getting approval from the boss 
Not sure if you ever got an answer to your question regarding integrating the blinds in HA. I was also wondering the same and came across the following reddit post. In short the answer is yes, the blinds do work in HA and mine were quickly discovered once in pairing mode using the ZHA integration.
The trick however is to get them into paring mode! From the post:
This is very simple to do but not written anywhere within the Somfy documentation. Hold the prog button down on the blinds until it does two jogs (up and down with the blind twice). As a note 1 jog puts it in pairing mode on its proprietary Zigbee network and 3 jogs is a factory reset. 2 jogs is what you need for it to clear the current zigbee network and then it can be added to HA with no problem at all.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZigBee/comments/1dyk15q/anyone_played_with_the_somfy_sonesse2_zigbee/
Hope that helps
This is awesome info. I was holding back buying anything since I didn’t know if it’d pair with normal ZHA. The button/hold and jog movements for pairing would have been impossible to find by guessing.
Update: I saw the redit post and it says you have to “commission” the blinds using Tahoma or one of the controllers to get it to “learn” the open/closed positions. Did you have a controller to do this? Or were you able to do it on ZHA somehow?
