The “switch” entities appear to be binary (up/down) and “level” has a slide-bar so I suppose I could use that to set my shade half-open. “switch” is integral to the shade itself, meaning it is not the remote control that came with the shade; the remote is a separate device all together. But why are there two of each and why are there “switches” and “levels” as separate entities anyways?
Which thingies should I use in the GUI to operate and/or in automations?
Then this doc which talks about implementing methods. What programming language is this even referring to or where would one even “implement this method”? I’m fundamentally confused by config via Z Wave Control Panel GUI vs config via configuration.yaml vs config via “implementing methods”, etc…
The Bali/Somfy shades present themselves to Zwave much like a dimmer switch, that is with on/off (which is open/close) and dimmer level (that is percentage open 0 to 100%), which is why you see both an up (on)/down(closed) arrows and a position (level) in the cover entity.
_2 : It generally is the case where HA gets told about a device, it tries to find it in its existing database based on some uniqueness but can’t. If this happens but it does find a device with the same name, instead of replacing an existing entity, it simply creates a new one and add a _2 to the name. If you have two shades, I would think this would be what happens, but if you only have one shade, then hard for me to say but it does happen from time to time in HA and you’ll probably find one of the entities works but the other does not (so should delete the entity from the database that doesn’t work).
I don’t have the same setup, so not completely sure, but it appears that it discovered your remote (and the remote’s battery level) which is the VCZ1, but did not discover the cover itself.
Reset the remote control - press until it flashes red quickly (first green, then amber, then red)
Reset the blind - hold 7 sec, the shade jogs
Press the “Add node” on the HA interface
Press the button on the shade until green flashes (about 3 sec)
ERROR - the shade flashes green for about 20 seconds (which I believe the time-out for pairing) and the shade does not show up in HA Zwave.
I can pair the remote control again to Zwave or to the shade as well, but the result is the same as in my screenshot above. The remote can control the shade and I can see the battery level in HA plus a lot of information about the remote control…
Hi @wmaker - I am sorry took so long to get back here, was overwhelmed with work…
Could you please send me a screenshot of what info do you see about the shade in HA? I managed to connect both the Shade and the Remote to HA, but it does not work. I attached the log in case you have a moment to have a look at it and you see something I do not. I can see when I press the up/down button on the remote, it is actually sending a message to the Zwave stick. These are row 696 to 714.
Also attached screenshots what I can see in HA about the shade and the remote. I hope I am close to the solution here.
I can’t get to your log, seems its not publicly available. Is it the OpenZWave Log? That’s the one to really look at. Also to let you know, I don’t use HA’s ZWave, I use ZWave2MQTT.
Hi,
Actually, something is definitely wrong with the shade I tried. We have an other one which I tried and it is working properly. Since it is the same brand, we bought together, I have no idea what to do with it. Probably no way to fix it…
I fixed the link, you can access it now, but again, probably the shade is a lemon…
Thank you!
Looks like the device never responded, but somehow the at one time the ZStick found about Node2 which means the shade must have communicated at one time or another. I would suggest, force removing node2 from the Zstick and then try to “Include” the shade again.
Yes, Node2 is the shade, but it comes up only as a “Probe” after multiple tries. Maybe the Zwave stick is too far, cannot communicate properly and that’s causing this issue.
So, in case any one else have issues with the shade’s Zwave, if you push and hold the reset button for long, the shade will totally reset itself, even the up and down position. This reset solved my problem. Steps I did:
Push and hold the reset button on the shade for about 15-20 seconds. After about 7-10 sec the shade will jog one, but do not release the button until you see a red light flashing (and a second jog if I remember well).
