Install and setup your Slide device(s) using the official app by Innovation in Motion, on your smartphone. Login using your e-mail address and password of your Slide account, in the Homey app, and select which Slide(s) you want to add to Homey.
Enables the following cards to use in your flows:
[Trigger] Position changed #level (From fully opened: 0.00 to fully closed: 1.00)
[Action] Set position
[Action] Immediate stop
Use at your own risk, I accept no responsibility for any damages caused by using this script.
Changelog
Version 0.3.3 (yet to be approved)
Changed device type, please remove and re-add your devices
Using the âHomeâ (Woning) app to close my bedroom curtain:
Using Siri to close the curtains in my livingroom (lot of âticksâ because of the extendable rails in my living room - please note that this is not the Slide):
Both were accomplished with Homey, the Homeykit app on Homey and the Slide app on Homey.
I accidentially left some testing code in the âchecktokenâ function, resulting in a renewal of the authentication token daily instead of every 14 days. This has been solved.
And I made a mistake in the same function, where I acidentially âsetâ the login details instead of getting them. This resulted in overwriting them with empty values, therefor it was impossible to renew the token and the Slides canât be controlled anymore after 30 days. This is now fixed in the next version (still needs to be approved by Athom)
Ah good to hear, I did not understand why they stopped working from time to time. Re-adding the device helped but I assumed that was not a permanent fix
How can I make a flow where Slide will open or close depending on the position of the curtain.
Scenario: I want to press three times on a fibaro dimmer switch and Homey should first see if itâs open or closed. When closed: open, when open: close.
You should be able to accomplish that with the âposition tagâ of the Slide.
Use the logic card " Is bigger than" in the âwhenâ column.
Please remind that although a curtain may look fully closed or opened, the tag may vary a few percent. Mine go fully open but show 82% (0.82 in Homey).
Thanks for the app! I just set up some flows to use the slide & my lights in combination with a lux-meter.
Before I purchased a slide, I used to control my lights based around sunset and sunrise. In my experience this wasnât ideal. Depending on the weather, my lights would be on while there was plenty of daylight outside, or my lights wouldnât be on while they should be on darker/overcast days.
With the addition of a lux-meter I can open my curtains when itâs getting bright, but also close them a bit when the sun shines directly into my window and it becomes too bright. I used a Aeotec Multisensor 6 and mounted it on the inside of the window (could do it outside as well, but this was more convenient for supplying it with power)
Loving the app so far but I have one request;
Is there any way you could add a simple âopenâ and âcloseâ trigger? Right now I have to check the current status through logics and they are not really updating on the fly, making it hard to directly know the exact status. A simple open (100%) and close (0%) would greatly help in making flows a lot more simple.
Thatâs kinda hard, since the API doesnât always give back 100% and 0%. For example, the curtains in my bedroom donât close over 90% (I might have to set the motor pulling more hard, since the curtains in my bedroom are quite heavy).
I will look into this soon, to see if there is a tag in the API that shows if it is still moving the curtains or if itâs done (but I donât think this is available).
Really busy at the moment though, it will take some time for me before I can dive into it.
Itâs not that I really need it to be at 100% (or 0% for that matter) but more that I can make flows that respond to a simple (WHEN statement) close (0%) and open (100%) command rather than having to hope that the current open percentage is updated (which can take minutes) with dodgy flows such as below;
If I create a trigger for open/close, it will probably not be faster. I check the curtains status every 30 seconds. Then pass the position through to Homey.
A trigger based on a status < 5% or > 95% will be equally slow.
Itâs not really about fetching the actual status from slide but more the âforcedâ action to simple fully open or close, no matter what the current open/close percentage is. This rules out any misalignment between the actual state and the one homey is reading.
An easy example; I have a aqara single button switch. When I press it once I want it to close. When I press it again I want it to open. This second press now has to first read the actual status which can be out of sync for minutes and keeps on wanting to open the curtains since it reads values that do not really make sense.
For that you donât need a trigger. Simply set the position to 100% or 0%.
I could build in a âforce_closedâ or âforce_openâ status, which overrides the curtain status inside Homey, but that will be a lot of work. Itâs probably easier to use a virtual switch inside Homey for this usecase.
When you press the button, set the virtual switch to âonâ and close the curtains. If the switch is on when you press the button again, open the curtains and turn the switch off.
Iâm keep getting the error that mine credentials are invalid. iâve reset the password, but iâm keeping the same result. i use the same credentials i use for the slide app. what could it be?
