Blinds with Google

[andy99288]

I just added blinds to my system, and am having trouble getting them linked with Google. When I select a device as a blind it shows up in google home, but I don't have any control. It just shows in the settings page that it recognizes it as a blind (the control page doesn't show at all). I don't think it is accepting the "range" state.

I assume I should be sending something similar to this as a state value, which maybe would initiate it? msg = { "acknowledge":true, "payload" : { "state" : { "rangeValue": parseInt(msg.payload) } } }; return msg

I tried switching it to a fan, because that too would have on off & level, but fan isn't working either. I believe it is recognizing the "power" state correctly, but not the range again. The fan does show up with controls - but the screen just keeps flashing between responding and not responding - just a guess again, it possibly isn't getting the "Range" value but only the power.

Thanks for your help, before today this has just been working! I haven't had to monitor it at all.

[andy99288]

As an update - still having issues, but I've "tricked" it to work for now.

• First I changed the blinds to a different device type, I chose fan with power only.
• Then from my phone, I opened up the fan device and it showed the controls - power button only as expected.
• Then I changed it on the website to a blind.
• On the phone, I then went into settings, and back to control, and some point in that process it updated itself and realized it was now a blind. It then showed me the blind control page.
• I then issued it some voice commands and it seems to be okay with them - though it often reports "offline". But the commands are making it back to node red.

Once I leave the "control" page I can't get back into it - it just goes straight to settings when I try to access it again. So I can't control the device with touch, but it seems to still be accepting voice commands. So it is working, but not happy.

Also, as a side note - the blinds icon on the phone in google home shows up with a gear in the upper right corner. I'm guessing that is not a part of the icon, but a notification that it isn't configured correctly?

[andy99288]

Apparently my success was short lived. At some point over the past 2 days, the devices stopped responding to voice commands.

I'd put them under a different category, say a dimmer light or an outlet, but that creates other issues.

Edit: Actually, it looks like either the site is down or whatever I did upset the https://red.cb-net.co.uk/ gods and my account is locked/blocked.