One ikea open/close remote for multiple fyrtur blinds?

jbigte commented 3 years ago

Describe the question or issue you are having

Controlling multiple fyrtur blinds with one ikea open/close remote E1766 - does not work

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Environment

Host system: Debian Buster
Running method: xpra start --opengl=no --mdns=no --start="deCONZ --http-port=88 --ws-port=8089 --dev=/dev/ttyACM0"
Firmware version: 26660700
deCONZ version: 2.05.84
Device: ConBee II
Do you use an USB extension cable: yes, 10m active usb extension cable, usb2 port

deCONZ Logs

Additional context

Here's what I did and the issue:

Pair blinds (3 of them) with conbee ii using phoscon
Pair remote with conbee ii using phoscon
Add blinds to group auto-created when pairing remote, using old web interface or REST API (tried both, same result)
Only one blind is controlled by the remote (on some occasions, only two blinds), not all 3 blinds

I've spent hours researching the multiple threads here, eg https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin/issues/3406 https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin/issues/1261 and especially https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin/issues/1121 and elsewhere and found some relevant information, but nothing that has ultimately led to a solution.

I have 9 Ikea Fyrtur blinds, running latest firmware 2.2.009. Four blinds in one room, four blinds in another room, one in a third room.

For the rooms with four blinds, I'd like a single remote to control three of them. Paired the switch in Phoscon without issue. Firmware version 2.2.010 (although I have some other switches of the same model that are firmware 2.2.008 - same ultimate result.)

Then added 3 blinds to the group created by the switch. I've tried doing this in both the old web interface, and using the REST API.

Output from the REST API shows there are indeed 3 blinds in the group created by the switch pairing:

{ "action": { "alert": "none", "bri": 127, "colormode": "hs", "ct": 0, "effect": "none", "hue": 0, "on": false, "sat": 127, "scene": null, "xy": [ 0, 0 ] }, "devicemembership": [ "13" ], "etag": "62758450de1629d88a54b741adfad9fe", "id": "10", "lights": [ "3", "6", "4" ], "name": "TRADFRI open/close remote", "scenes": [], "state": { "all_on": false, "any_on": false }, "type": "LightGroup", "uniqueid": "68:0a:e2:ff:fe:42:06:b8" }

And the switch shows as follows under sensors:

"13": { "config": { "alert": "none", "battery": 60, "group": "10", "on": true, "reachable": true }, "ep": 1, "etag": "7ec0a9644d57c19fae8d96637151070c", "lastseen": "2020-10-13T15:29Z", "manufacturername": "IKEA of Sweden", "mode": 1, "modelid": "TRADFRI open/close remote", "name": "Test Master", "state": { "buttonevent": 1002, "lastupdated": "2020-10-13T07:23:50.099" }, "swversion": "2.2.010", "type": "ZHASwitch", "uniqueid": "68:0a:e2:ff:fe:42:06:b8-01-1000" }

Here's one of the blinds, under lights:

"3": { "etag": "d6186952bd94743d8e108497b210874d", "hascolor": false, "lastannounced": "2020-10-12T08:55:15Z", "lastseen": "2020-10-13T15:31Z", "manufacturername": "IKEA of Sweden", "modelid": "FYRTUR block-out roller blind", "name": "Master balcony center blind", "state": { "bri": 0, "lift": 0, "on": false, "open": true, "reachable": true }, "swversion": "2.2.009", "type": "Window covering device", "uniqueid": "d0:cf:5e:ff:fe:dd:c0:aa-01" },

However, only one blind is controlled, the others do nothing.

I've tried re-pairing the blinds, disconnecting the battery for 10 seconds on the blinds, same on the remote, and no luck.

One other thing, I'm also running home automation (core) on the same debian server. No problem controlling the blinds individually from HA.

Can anyone advise how to diagnose the issue, or anything else to try? Wondering:

if the blinds have paired properly, even though they are working fine in HA and show battery levels. Only reason I have to suspect this is that I notice there is no "Ikea" cluster on the blinds when viewing in deconz VNC, although there is one on the switch? (here are cluster screenshots of the blind and the switch)

if the Conbee II stick is defective - I have the "disconnect/reconnect" issue, every 15 seconds, in the logs, if deconz is not running
if I should give up on further efforts with deconz and leave it as is, and try an automation on HA instead (haven't yet looked into how to do that...)

stale[bot] commented 3 years ago

As there hasn't been any response in 21 days, this issue has been automatically marked as stale. At OP: Please either close this issue or keep it active It will be closed in 7 days if no further activity occurs.

jbigte commented 3 years ago

After a bit of further digging - eg saw that the ikea remotes were sending 3 events for each button press (not sure why?), gave up on them and am now using HA to control the blinds without issues.

Would be nice to get the remotes working some day...

stale[bot] commented 3 years ago

As there hasn't been any response in 21 days, this issue has been automatically marked as stale. At OP: Please either close this issue or keep it active It will be closed in 7 days if no further activity occurs.

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