# \[APP\] Fakro

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/app-fakro/63725>\
**Category:** Apps\
**Tags:** app, homey-pro, homey-bridge\
**Created:** [May 17, 2022, 6:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-fakro/63725 "2022-05-17T06:19:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-fakro/63725/34 "2022-05-24T07:45:30Z")

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I tried adding a window using the window opener now labelled “Electric Skylight” in the app v2.4.0.

When it added, the app it declared it ARZ instead, with this under advanced settings:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/2/7/27a678262760854b78badbbdd9333441fb838996.png)

There two control options in app:

- a full and closed window blind slider: when I slide towards open the window opens. If attempt to stop it half way by setting the slider half way, it continues opening until fully open. I can only close it when fully open, by sliding the other way

- a set of 3 buttons (up, down and stop, like the physical remote control except the stop button on the control is square, whereas the app version all the buttons are round): Pressing up starts opening the window. Pressing stop, doesn’t stop it continuing to open. Sometimes tapping down stops it, after 1 tap. Other times it doesn’t. Same for operations in reverse: sometimes a single tap on Up stops the window closing, sometimes it starts opening it again.

The opening and closing is slower than the normal speed. I tried changing the setting in the app for motor speed from 2 to 3 or 4 as it indicates these are available, but it produced this error:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/4/1/41efe9cab5e5b6e097de975ea0fac9cca2abdecc.png)

So it is misidentified and doesn’t work properly, but maybe instead of using the app controls, I can use flows to operate. The actions I can see in available in the flows are

- when the state has change (Up, Down or Idle) - I’m not sure of Up means fully up/open or moving in that direction.

- position changed: this appears to be a percentage open or closed

It seems I can get a flow to open or close it but not to stop it anywhere in between (It does not seem to respond in time).

Finally, I tried to follow @Martijn_C 's suggestion [here in this thread](https://community.homey.app/t/fakro-window-opener-connected-to-homey/55553/3) to use the existing remote as a second controller. However the instructions for adding as a secondary controller refer to first pressing the include button on another [Fakro] primary controller. So I tried using Homey to adding a generic z-wave device, and then using the include button on the Fakro remote, which produced only this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/3/3306fc5eaf66b2e2e4d2f895474ccc80654f8bb6.png)

So, @JonE if the developer seems to respond only to you, I would appreciate his/her attention to these issues, so maybe one day he/she will make it work properly with chain controllers with windows that have it pre-installed, such as FTP-V Z-Wave Window, FTU-V Z-Wave Window, and make the app work with the ZWP10 remotes that come with these windows (and Fakro wall remotes, like ZWG3 wall switch).

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