I’ve got a number of rooms with Switchbot tilt blind motors. I’ve also got Lutron Ra3 lighting controls.
The room in question is a home office and gets a lot of light. Depending on the day there’s one shade that often needs adjustment to reduce screen glare. I’d be tempted to think there’s a way to automate this. And at some point I might want to do that. But for now I’d be good with just using the remote to adjust it.
I’ve succeeded in using HA and a Lutron Pico remote send open and close commands to multiple shades.
I’d like to try using the center round (called ‘favorite’ in HA) button on the Pico to toggle through multiple shades to allow using the up/down buttons to then adjust a selected shade.
I’m assuming this would require storing a value somewhere for the currently selected shade. I don’t know enough about HA to understand where to store such a thing, and how to structure the code. There’s always multiple ways to ‘skin the cat’ in a HA and I’m looking to find the most recent approach for doing this.
I’m also thinking this virtual state would also get periodically re-set to a specific shade. This to avoid having to repeatedly toggle through them all when I know it’d probably a specific one that need adjusting.
I’d also like to use this for other rooms that have their own sets of blind tilt motors.
So where should I start with this? Where should I put this virtual value?