Shades/IOlinc/Soldering oh my...

[bcdavis75]

Hi all.  I'm thinking of embarking on a small project to get my Pella Shades working with the ISY again.  Long story short, I used to be able to control them By going ISY>IFTTT>WINK HUB>Pella Bridge.  Believe it or not, that all worked great until WINK decided to make their hub subscription based.  The Pella Bridge itself is a Zwave device but from what I can tell, connecting directly to it doesn't work very well.

Sooo... I'm thinking of an alternative approach that I once used to to control my Garage Doors (before V5 and the MYQ nodeserver).  

I took apart one of the shade remotes (pictured) and I'm thinking about soldering the buttons to an I/O Linc.  BUt here's the rub, unlike my garage door openner where 1 button toggled both open and close; on these remotes, open and close are distinc buttons.  Moreover, I'll need to hack 2 remotes becasue some of the blinds are bottom up and some are top down and those sets are linked to their own remotes because it's impossible to mix them on a single remote (Pella sucks by the way).  So if I understand IOLinc correctly, I'd need 4 of them???.  

Also to be clear, remotes (pictures) are linked directly to the shades I want them to control.  The Pella Bridge device is a separate unit pella sells to connect shade to a VERY select set of home automation systems of which WINK used to be included.  So the Bridge is not part of the equation for this project because I have no way to communicate with it.

I'm wondering if there's a different device out there (maybe a a ZWAVE device) that has multiple relay's on the same device and would be a cheaper route?  Also, I was assuming I'd be using the Normally open and Common connectors but if I'm wrong, any advice appreciated.

 

[KSchex]

@bcdavis75 Look at FortrezZ Mimo.  It is ZWave, 2 inputs and 2 relay outs. 

[Brian H]

Smartenit makes a few different Insteon/X10 compatible modules. https://smartenit.com/product/iot4r/

One is a 4 relay with both NC and NO connections. The new replacement also has Wi-Fi in it. The earlier one with out the WI-Fi is sold out. I don't have one so I can't say how well the ISY994i can control and modify things.

Like the I/OLinc it looks like a a power line only device.