#How to learn and control 433mhz devices (roller shutters) with home assistant?

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atomic flower
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I have rollershutters that have no buttons or rope/band in the house we recently bought.
They just have a 433mhz remote that controls all of the 4 rollershutters on the down floor. If we lose the remote, we cant control them anymore. Besides automations are fun. So how would i make this work in home assistant?

mellow arch
atomic flower
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Any alternatives @mellow arch ? I had this device before but it was very unstable.

golden hare
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what do you mean instable? it would loose the connection? or not do the action you want ?

agile hawk
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The Bond Bridge works well for me.

mellow arch
tight sinew
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My Somfy shades use the same frequency, but I’m not sure if this is compatible. I use this and it’s great: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/esp-somfy-rts-integration/543401

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ESP Somfy RTS Integration

I have created a Somfy RTS integration that uses an ESP32 and a CC1101 transceiver that is readily available. The radio range is excellent, it supports up to 32 covers per device, and it links your existing Somfy remotes to keep the shade positions and tilt in sync, and it supports the My positions set from your remotes. The configuration is s...

atomic flower
atomic flower
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It was a device that every day/few days wanted attention from me.

mellow arch
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Rf in general is awful. Not being able to get true states back from devices means you have to visually confirm that HA is actually controlling things as you want. Which is not ideal.

I found the bond bridge to be completely unreliable, as in 50/50 shot of whether a device would be correctly controlled or not. Not ideal and incredibly frustrating.

atomic flower
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i can imagine, but thats the only (shitty) way the roller shades work at the house we bought.

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nothing to control them on a wall or something. just a remote control.

mellow arch
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I mean if you're set on using the existing shades, go with the cheaper of the bond and the broadlink. But I'd focus on replacing the shades with something zwave or matter.

agile hawk
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I've not used the broadlink, but FWIW I've not encounteted the issues with the Bond Bridge that Ender is describing. Pairing to the Somfy blinds is very simple if you have the remote. I ran in to a little trouble with my automatiosn (Adaptive Cover) trying to send commands to all of my shades at once, but I was able to group my living room shades to cut down on the commands that needed to be sent and I also added a slight delay to the commands that's configurable if you use the beta firmware.

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Getting the shades calibrated also is imperfect (mine take longer to go up than down), but I can hit 50% open within a few inches.

atomic flower
ornate cave
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Hi 👋 everyone!
I don't want to hijack the thread, but I want to do the exact same thing, but with Broadlink RM4 Pro.
I am having issues make the learn_command work! Even though I believe to having followed carefully the instructions!

here is my learn_command for controller a roller blind that works with a remote on 433Mhz frequency range! --> https://hastebin.com/share/roxofeluqi.yaml

the /config/.storage/broadlink_remote_xxx file is not even created!

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When I click on the "Perform Action" button, the Broadlink controller LED turns to red/amber, I receive an HA notification as well .... but still, nothing really effective for taking into account my learning

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For info, "office_roller_blind" does not exist. I assume it it supposed to be created automatically by the learning process, wrong?

ornate cave
atomic flower
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found a device called RFX433XL USB. it should be able to do this all, and has a native home assistant integration.