Automatic Curtains and Google Home

[asbril]

I also posted the following  elsewhere in this forum :

 

https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/22725-automatic-curtains/page-2

 

I finally installed the automatic curtains (   http://automaticcurt...e-track-systems )   today and was able to make them work with ISY.  It took some time because I had made a mistake in the width when ordering the tracks. The company gracefully cut the tracks to the right size. Be careful when measuring !

 

In order to connect (ZWave) the system with ISY you need the Mimo-lite and because i have double tracks I needed two Mimo-Lites. The company sells the cables to connect the system to Mimo-Lite but their documentation shows an incorrect wiring. It shows white-yellow-blue wires but their cable actually comes with white-black-blue. I mistakenly assumed that the black would replace the yellow, but that did not work. After trial and error, I finally found out that the correct wiring is blue-white-black.

 

In the Administrative Console ON is curtain closed and OFF is curtain open.

I believe that you can program so that the curtain opens partially but I have not done that yet.... and am not even sure that I need that option.

 

The system is not very noisy but not super quiet either.

 

Curtain Call, as the company likes to be called, has given me superb customer service, answering all my queries by email and by phone.

 

I also added the tracks to ISY Portal ~ Google Home but right now I was only able to use ON and OFF instead of OPEN and CLOSE.

Saying "turn the curtains On"  is weird. Does anyone know how to program, in ISY Portal, so that I can use OPEN and CLOSE ?

Edited December 27, 2017 by asbril

[stusviews]

The Alexa smartphone app allows you to use virtually any phrase to turn a device, scene or program On or Off. That includes Open and Close. I even use "Flip the slats," to rotate the slats on our verticals.

[asbril]

The Alexa smartphone app allows you to use virtually any phrase to turn a device, scene or program On or Off. That includes Open and Close. I even use "Flip the slats," to rotate the slats on our verticals.

I am very pleased to report that Google Home has a feature allowing the user to create a shortcut. I made shortcuts that allow me to say "OK Google, close the curtains"  and "Open the curtains".

All that is missing is having the option, in the ISY Administrative Console, to use OPEN and CLOSE instead of OFF and ON.

[stusviews]

Hmm, another duplicate post.

[asbril]

Hmm, another duplicate post.

yep

[G W]

yep

Uh-huh.