I have 6 of these drapery motors and the very awesome and helpful people @chris and @sihui were able to recently add it to the ZWave database as a supported device and it works perfectly.
You just need the motors only, they have built in ZWave chips in them…are included into your network like any other ZWave device and you do not need any further hardware or bridges…just need to have the blind motors powered up…they are also capable of running on battery packs but I wouldn’t suggest that.
I am just not sure if they are available in your area with your ZWave Frequency…I am in Canada.
This is the (dis)advantage of OH
It offers too many possibilities …
I personally would not rely on a gateway, is another piece in between making all more complicated.
I made all with z-wave switches, actors, sensors aso, as it is neccessary that my wired system works parallel.
So if my OH system is down all is still working, just smartness is missing.
I guess otherwise my wife would kill me some time
Finally I got 7 rollershutters with “Somfy Oximo IO” motors, they are paired with Velux KLF 200 Gateway (and communicating through io-homecontrol, bidirectional) and they are running very reliable with OH2 Velux Binding.
Hi,
how do i connect Somfy’s Connexcoon to OH2?
i asked the local Somfy expert and he didn’t know that one can use Connexcoon with other interface other than Somfy’s app
My given solutions above expects io (=io-homecontrol) motors.
But there are also RTS motors, e.g. Oximo RTS motors available. And there are two different versions of Connexoon available. One with io-homecontrol and another one with RTS. Both can be connected via Tahoma Binding to openhab.
@Celaeno1 I have a question regarding your setup.
Can you see the current position of your Somfy devices in OH2 when you use the Velux binding? So is the communication bidirectional?
And do you have any issues with the radio conenction or is this stable?
A kolleague has the Somfy blind motors j406io and shutters Oximo 40io. I would try the Velux gw if you think this should work on this setup. The alternative would be to move the actors to homematic ip because he has already some components and a GW there. But a Velux GW would be cheaper than replacing 12 actors.
Thank you for this thread. I would have never discovered the Velux controller without it. I just ordered it and I’m looking forward to using it with my 9 Somfy IO driven roller shutters. No cloud connection required was the biggest selling point for me, besides reliability, of course. I’m happy to share my experiences with it if someone finds this thread in the future.
Well, so here is my experience after integrating the Velux controller. It crashes from time to time and then simply hangs until power cycled. I have not found a pattern yet. So it’s far away from reliable and I’m back at square 1. When it works the controlling works fine, but at the current stage I’m just looking forward to replacing the Somfy motors with something else.
Did you try using an RFXTRX433XL with these? No cloud connection needed for it to work and very reliable operation (in my experience). Mine have been working for 2 yrs now and operate every day without fail.
There’s a little work in getting them setup but there’s lots of guides on the process. Involves putting each motor into “program mode” whilst the RFXTRX433XL is “listening” via RFXMNGR in Windows, to pick up each blind ID
Note though that I have the io-homecontrol motors/remotes. They operate on around 868 MHz if I’m not mistaken. I guess the RFXTRX433XL is for the older RTS wireless technology?
I know exactly what you mean!