Somfy Z-Wave to RTS Interface (ZRTSI) & Indigo?

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Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:49 am
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Re: Somfy Z-Wave to RTS Interface (ZRTSI) & Indigo?

i like that it has battery reporting - it's a big downer to install lots of home automation gear in your house and then routinely some fraction of it not working due to batteries running out.

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Tue Jan 17, 2017 4:53 pm
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Re: Somfy Z-Wave to RTS Interface (ZRTSI) & Indigo?

Just got four new Bali Somfy Autoview (z-wave) controlled blinds installed a few hours ago. Looking for info on how to control them from Indigo using my existing z-wave controller. User manual from Bali is very sparse on info about including/excluding in networks. I'm doing some google searches, but wondering if anybody in our Indigo ecosystem has experience with these.

Running Indigo 2023.2 on a 24" iMac M1), OS X 14.4
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Tue Jan 17, 2017 10:10 pm
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Re: Somfy Z-Wave to RTS Interface (ZRTSI) & Indigo?

@Jeff check out this video
https://youtu.be/8mTF8uF7jnE
It helped me get the Bali auto view connected to Indigo

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Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:11 am
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Re: Somfy Z-Wave to RTS Interface (ZRTSI) & Indigo?

Thanks, I found the same video. Going to try it in the next couple of days.

Running Indigo 2023.2 on a 24" iMac M1), OS X 14.4
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Sat May 20, 2017 11:24 pm
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Re: Somfy Z-Wave to RTS Interface (ZRTSI) & Indigo?

For others looking for setup help, in addition to previously mentioned items in this thread, this blog post was helpful for me in setting up these new AutoView shades:
http://notes.kendeeter.com/2017/01/08/bali-autoview-and-openzwave/

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Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:58 pm
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Re: Somfy Z-Wave to RTS Interface (ZRTSI) & Indigo?

Has anyone had experience with the Venetian style Somfy shades? They go up and down like normal shades, but when they get to the closed position, the horizontal blades of the shade tilts 90 degrees. This allows the sun in and defeats the purpose of closing the shades. My workaround for this is to follow the close command with an immediate open command followed by a stop command. To do the stop command, I use a Raw Z-wave command of 0x26 0x05. This usually works, but not always, due to the latency of getting the command from z-stick ZRTSI controller to the shade. I am hoping there is a two-byte command to take the shade out of the tilt mode.

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Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:26 pm
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Re: Somfy Z-Wave raw commands

I have the Shangri La Blind Stripes with Somfy motors. They are like Venetian blinds. When they go down and reach stop position, they rotate 90 degrees. I am trying to find a command which prevents the rotation. I am using

UP: 0x26, 0x04, 0x60, 0x00
DOWN: 0x26, 0x04, 0x20, 0x00
STOP: 0x26, 0x05

Anybody aware of any other codes?

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