Indigo Domotics

Hi, I have a set of motorized Hunter Douglas blinds. I have discovered I can control them from my MACs terminal window via Telnet. I'm hoping I can somehow easily create an action that will establish a session from within Indigo and then send a simple text string command.

Any help with this would be really appreciated since the alternative would be to disassemble a Hunter Douglas remote and wire in relays (no fun). BTW, I'm on the latest build of Indigo.

User Perry's Cynical Network plugin: http://www.cynic.org/indigo/plugins/online/network.html

FYI - Telnet is TCP to port 21 by default.

Thanks Joe, I did notice the Cynical Network plugin, but when I looked at it nothing in the write-up mentioned telnet - I need to be on port 522, if it works it will be the coolest - thanks so much for the help. I was a long long time HS user - in less than 1 month I have been doing so much more with Indigo (and so much more reliably) it is the best thing since sliced bread. I started with home automation on my 128k MAC back in the late 80's now finally making some great progress

You can specify the port.

Telnet is actually the name of the program (on UNIX), not the protocol.

Wow - so easy and it worked great - I O U 1 Joe - this plugin (and other plugins) working in conjunction with the Alexa capability of Indigo equals some amazing HA opportunities. I can't wait to see what is coming in V7. Thanks again for the help....

You owe Perry, not me.

OTOH, I do have a couple plugins you might want to try out...

Can you share the details of your Mac terminal Hunter Douglas automation approach? I'm becoming a Hunter Douglas customer with the first phase of my home's blinds updates arriving next week. I see their hub has a serial connection and a string protocol, but have not explored this further. Thank you.