[APP][Pro] Powerview- Luxaflex & Hunter Douglas

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@Mike_Bouwman Make sure to update the ip of your PowerView hub in homey
You can do that in the device settings

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@martijnpoppen if I try that, I get a warning of a timeout of 10000 ms. I can’t save the changed setting. But in the Powerview app I have selected the option static ip-adress. Should I undo that?

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@Mike_Bouwman please send a new report after trying to save the settings

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@Mike_Bouwman i guess you send a new report?

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@martijnpoppen I just did

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@Mike_Bouwman The report looks good. Also it looks like it has connection to the hub

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@martijnpoppen That doesn’t explain why the scenes are not loaded into the homey app. He still can’t find the scenes I programmed in the Powerview app. Does it matter that homey is connected by LAN and the gateway is connected by wifi?

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@Mike_Bouwman i can only tell you what I see in the logs right If there’s no error in the log.

Yes that might be a issue if homey is not able to reach PowerView. Most of the time this is a local network issue which I can’t do anything about

So you can check if the ip range of your homey is the same as your PowerView
If it isn’t then that’s the issue

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@martijnpoppen what do you mean by IP-range? The first en second 3 digits are the same. The third isn’t. The IP-adres of the gateway has 2 digits in de third row and the IP-adres of my Homey has 1 digit.

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@Mike_Bouwman The IP range refers to the first three sets of numbers in an IP address (e.g., http://192.168.1.xxx/). If the first three sets of numbers are different between your Homey and PowerView hub, they’re on different networks, and they won’t communicate properly.
Since the third set of numbers is different in your case, Homey and the PowerView hub are likely on different subnets, which could be causing the issue. You’ll need to make sure both devices are on the same subnet for them to talk to each other.

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@martijnpoppen I have a deco mesh system, but my Homey was connected directly tot the router. Now I’ve connected the Lan cable to the deco and now they’re on the same network and it works! I can find the scenes. Thank you for the help and patience! :pray::smiling_face:

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@Mike_Bouwman nice good to hear!
This will hopefully also help for other local apps :slight_smile:

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Hi @martijnpoppen,

I have purchased a Homey Pro about a month ago and have been playing around with it. We live in an apartment with 4+3+2 horizontal blinds (in 3 rooms) and 2 TDBU duette shades (in 1 room), 1 main hub (wireless), 1 sub hub (wired) and 2 repeaters (due to the poor range of the hubs), all gen 2. We also have various Google speakers in the house.

I installed your Homey Powerview app and love the individual device control using Google Assistant voice commands (the Android Powerview app only supports that for scenes that you create manually). And I often use the room name or part of a device name to control multiple devices, e.g. “woonkamer omlaag” will close all 4 blinds in the “woonkamer” room and “buiten omhoog” will open the leftmost and rightmost blind (which are named “Buiten links” and “Buiten rechts”). I also just found out that I can say “Luxaflex” to control all coverings in the room where I give the voice command.

I have a few questions, suggestions and remarks about your Homey Powerview app (v2.8.2):

  1. Adding devices: on mobile devices, the text on tiles is truncated causing the same text for adding hubs and coverings → can you maybe remove obvious “Powerview (r)” part?
  2. Adding hubs:
    a) I expected the coverings to be added too, but that didn’t happen → can you please explain what the function of adding the hub is?
    b) Add hub gen 1/2 multiple times creates multiple duplicate devices → can you please check if the device is already added?
    c) Add hub gen 3 (which I don’t have) creates device without an IP address → can you please check if device really exists?
    d) What does “Update coverings” on a hub do? Update IP address on all coverings? → can you please explain this in the app?
  3. Adding window coverings:
    a) The edit field for the IP address is not really visible → can you please add borders to the edit field and maybe a different background color?
    b) Why do I have to enter the IP address? → Is it not possible to use the hub’s IP address?
    c) To avoid IP address changes, I have reserved it in DHCP in the router → can you maybe add a note in the app?
  4. Advanced settings for window coverings:
    a) It is not obvious how all advanced settings work exactly (e.g. Vane Tilt, Separate control) → can you please suggest how to set the options for the various coverings (e.g. horizontal blinds, vertical blinds, TDBU shades)?
    b) The option “Separate control = No” often does not work: “close > tilt 50% > open” on 2 horizontal blinds with exactly the same settings causes one to close correctly, but the other one to close and then lower a little probably due to the tilt, without tilt it works correctly → can you please fix this?
    c) changing advanced settings without saving does not give a warning (I forgot it a few times and was puzzled) → can you please prompt for confirmation when exiting without saving?
  5. Google voice commands: I had great difficulties finding the correct (Dutch) commands to control the coverings:
    a) full open/close: “ABC omhoog/omlaag” and “open/sluit ABC” both work for the horizontal blinds and for the bottom of the TDBU shades;
    b) relative open/close: “ABC x% omhoog/omlaag” and “open/sluit ABC x%” both work for the horizontal blinds and for the bottom of the TDBU shades;
    c) absolute open/close: “ABC op x%” and “open/sluit ABC tot x%” both work for the horizontal blinds and for the bottom of the TDBU shades;
    d) partial tilt: “ABC kantelen/draaien” and “kantel/draai ABC” both usually tilt the horizontal blinds by 15-20% (but are sometimes not understood by Google) → but do you know the command to tilt back?
    e) relative tilt: “ABC x% kantelen/draaien” and “kantel/draai ABC x%” both work for the horizontal blinds → but do you know the command to tilt x% back?
    f) tilt till x% (absolute): “ABC tot x% kantelen/draaien” and “kantel/draai ABC tot x%” do NOT work for the horizontal blinds → do you know the correct command?
    g) how to control the top of the TDBU shades → do you know the commands to lower/raise the top (full, relative and absolute)?
  6. Scenes and Scene collections:
    a) At first, I couldn’t find them in the “Then” cards, but finally found them under the hub device;
    b) What are scene collections and where can I create them (couldn’t find them in the Android Powerview app)?

Quite a post in total, but also a big praise on how you got it all to work. Thanks!

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Hey @ArnoudK

Thanks for your praise! And glad you like the individual commands via a smart speaker. I have the same thing with Google home and it really adds value.

I’ll try to answer every question, sorry if i miss something :wink:

Unfortunately I can’t this is decided by Hunter Douglas (as this is a official branded app) and is their defined driver name. As a possible solution i’ll ask to Athom if they can provide a row design or bigger cards

  • 2a The hub controls the scenes. And this is actually a bit of legacy. In the past this app only had a hub and later i added the individual window coverings as a option. The scenes still go trough the hib
  • 2b unfortunately there’s no identifier for this hub to check on. I search for multiple solutions but unfortunetaly this is it
  • 2c Not sure why you want to add a Gen 3 hub if you don’t have it. Same answer as 2b
  • 2d yes it updates all the ip addresses of the coverings. → I can add a info icon to that setting
  • 3a. yes I still need to update the pairing view to the new Homey UI.
  • 3b. not sure what you mean by this. But basically if the hub can’t be found in your network you have to manually enter the ip
  • 3c. Not sure where you would like to see that? as a info icon aswell?
  • 4a these settings depends on your own window covering, there’s no specific way. For example in a TBDU you can completely reverse the control by these settings.
  • 4b I need a diagnostic report for that so i can see what you did, right now i can’t tell if it’s wrong or not. but most of the time it’s advised to add a delay. The powerview hub cannot handle too many commands after each other. which probably didn’t save the updated state yet causing it to fail
  • 4c this is out of my control. You should request that at Athom
    1. In almost all of the cases you can use Open/Sluit - Draai 50% and reverting a x% is most of the time Sluit. All the other cases i’m not sure. But the TBDU is Open/Sluit and the top part is draai as that’s how it’s setup in Homey
  • 6a. Yes already answered that in a earlier reply
  • 6b. Only for Gen1 as far as i know