I just received the brand new Switchbot Roller Shades and would very much like support for this in the Switchbot Bluetooth Integration.
I am no coder, but I assume given that Switchbot is popular for similar products that makes shades go up and down, open and closed, that it should be relatively easy to add support for this device in the integration.
Currently my Home Assistant bluetooth devices (an ESP32) doesn’t detect it at all.
I recently got the new roller shades as well. ESP32 does not detect them.
Got a roller shade a few weeks ago, while there is some functionality with the matter integration I can’t get the roller to stop with cover.stop, it does stop and closes, I need this to be able to program a remote. Also the Bluetooth integration might be welcome as it is usually quicker than the switchbot matter implementation
That would be great! The Bluetooth connection to my curtains is generally much faster than other options. When using Matter for my new roller shade, I notice a delay of a few seconds before the shade starts moving.
I have just installed the roller blind - I am getting a couple of strange bluetooth connectionns thats HA is saying are from switchbot (The roller blind is the only switchbot device i have in the house at the moment)
When they were first powered up they were detected by HA- 2 devices were added with slightly different naems - The entities were and a temp and humdity, Battery and Bluetooth signal - They have since gone unavliable and have not come back online
Is it likely these will be properly supported later?
Any update on this?
Nope, not yet.
Hopefully it’ll be available in the May HASS update.
Yeah…was gonna do a follow up. Does anyone know more about when it will be available now that April is almost done and gone?
I just looked in SwitchBot Bluetooth - Home Assistant and it states that they are supported already.
If so, would we need to raise a bug or is it a “wait until the May update”?
Huh, maybe they got ahead of themselves. I’d wait till the May update. Only a few days…
Mine are still not recognised with BLE though
Yeah, I’m hoping both HASS and Switchbot got ahead of themselves and the May update will include this.
I’m currently in conversation with Switchbot support but they have no idea what I’m talking about even when I sent them their blog link.
It’s beta day today so I’ll have a look to see if works with the May update
This is in the beta release notes so looking promising, I’ll install it tomorrow to test:
Awesome! Think I’m just gonna wait for the official version and be happily surprised once it comes out. Happy to finally know that it’s coming out shortly.
How to i get to test the beta?
I actually couldn’t wait lol. I did it. it works beautifully - Settings → System → Update → Click the three dots at the top right → click Join Beta Channel → click the refresh button right next to the three dots, and it will show up. As always make a full back up before updating.
