New device to control your blinds

[KixAss]

For everyone who wants to control their blinds, there is an interesting project on Indigogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/axis ... /x/1651924#/

[LJ80]

http://www.teptron.com/

this is maybe a better option?

[KixAss]

Looks good, also very nice pricing. Too bad it only uses bluetooth, so difficult to add to Domoticz.

[jvdz]

That depends what API they are going to publish. Hopefully it will be supported from a RPI with a BT dongle which would make this a nice option.

Jos

[jjk88]

Looks like they are going to make a Z-wave version to.
[url]/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/78 ... 463284[url]

Curious how they manage the leveling of the blinds without physical end stops, also if slightly opening and state callback is an option over z-wave

[Evelen]

like it but think it was somewhat expensive

[thorbj]

Looks like they are going to make a Z-wave version to.
[url]/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/78 ... 463284[url]

Curious how they manage the leveling of the blinds without physical end stops, also if slightly opening and state callback is an option over z-wave

I submitted a question about this in their contact-form.

Is it possible to only partially open the blinds, or does it only go from fully closed to fully open and vice versa?
For example, I have pleated blinds in my livingroom that can open/close both from top and bottom. (This I know takes two move-devices because the blinds have two strings, one from top-bottom and on from bottom-top) If I want to protect my plants in the windows from direct sunlight, can I set one device to (bottom to top in this case) to open 80%? (The other will be closed at 100%, this way the blinds will copver 20% from the bottom of the window.

Here's what they replied:

You have two choices:

1. Calibrate your product to cover 20% from the bottom
2. Manually from the app use the slider and stop at 20% from the bottom

So to answer your question, its not an issue to set your product as you prefer.

[martinprimdahl]

Hi all.

Any of you who have tried the MOVE unit from Teptron?
I'm asking becouse I'm new to Domoticz and I'm trying to find out that hardware I should get....

Thanks in advance.

[jvdz]

That would be a hard thing to do as the KS project is still underway and no devices are shipped yet.
Don't think they have any publish api and they are still working on looking for a partner to buildin ZWAVE support.

Jos

[CellSI]

Have somebody got the Bluetooth motor? I just saw they now running a Z-Wave campaign at Indiegogo. Backed 8 pcs and I wanna know how everybody thinks of the Bluetooth motor. The idea is brilliant and I think it looks great!!

[pvm]

Link to MoveZ on domoticz forum: http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic ... vez#p96247
(i upgraded my bluetooth order to zwave)

[Goldwing1973]

Nice idea, but what happens if your vertical blinds aren't opening and closing that easy anymore because of wear and tear?
Also, z-wave, great, but i live in Europe... so useless for me, they are only promoting the US Z-Wave frequencies.

[booster]

Also, z-wave, great, but i live in Europe... so useless for me, they are only promoting the US Z-Wave frequencies.

They provide EU and US based Z-Wave frequencies...not surprisingly as they are a Swedish company..

[pvm]

It can pull 6kg, I guess that's enough for a little wear

[Thomasdc]

http://www.teptron.com/

this is maybe a better option?

is this supported by domoticz?

[pvm]

No, there is an API description on their site.
The zwave version requires a definition i'm the open zwave library, i do not think that should be a big issue

[t0mas]

Hi all,

I've managed to reverse engineer the protocol that the MOVE device uses so I can control it from a raspberry (or other computer) now. It's based on the work of Nash Kaminski, he did the same for a smartbulb based on the same bluetooth chip as the MOVE. See here for the code: https://github.com/t0mas/csrmesh

The way to run it is:
bin/csrmesh-cli move --pin 1234 --dest 43:C5:5B:04:00:06 --objid 1 --position 254

Where "43:C5:5B:04:00:06" is the address of your MOVE device. You can find it if you search for Bluetooth devices, it is named "CSRMesh". The objid is the identifier for which of the devices (if you have more than one) you would like to control. And the position goes from 0 to 255 for all the way open/close and anything in between. It uses the minimum and maximum positions that you can configure with the original app.

I think someone should be able to easily build this script into Domoticz to make it usable for anyone that has a Raspberry Pi 3 (with bluetooth) or any other Raspberry combined with a USB Bluetooth dongle.

[klasse]

Hi all,

I've managed to reverse engineer the protocol that the MOVE device uses so I can control it from a raspberry (or other computer) now. It's based on the work of Nash Kaminski, he did the same for a smartbulb based on the same bluetooth chip as the MOVE. See here for the code: https://github.com/t0mas/csrmesh

The way to run it is:
bin/csrmesh-cli move --pin 1234 --dest 43:C5:5B:04:00:06 --objid 1 --position 254

Where "43:C5:5B:04:00:06" is the address of your MOVE device. You can find it if you search for Bluetooth devices, it is named "CSRMesh". The objid is the identifier for which of the devices (if you have more than one) you would like to control. And the position goes from 0 to 255 for all the way open/close and anything in between. It uses the minimum and maximum positions that you can configure with the original app.

I think someone should be able to easily build this script into Domoticz to make it usable for anyone that has a Raspberry Pi 3 (with bluetooth) or any other Raspberry combined with a USB Bluetooth dongle.

[EDIT] Solved! See edit in bottom of post [/EDIT]

Nice!

I found your post while searching for information about how to operate Teptron Move without using the Bluetooth from my phone. I thought I'd give it a try.

I've just bought a new Raspberry Pi 3 and installed the latest Raspbian on it. I have the following versions of Python, Pycrypto and Bluez:
Python 2.7.9 and Python 3.4.2
Pycrypto 2.6.1
Bluez 5.23

I have 2 Move units connected to the mesh network.

I have installed csrmesh for python 2.7.9 (python setup.py install) and for python 3.4.2 (python3 setup.py install). I ran csrmesh with:
./bin/csrmesh-cli move --pin 1234 --dest 43:C5:5B:04:00:06 --objid 1 --position 254

All i get is the following output:
Running: gatttool -b 43:C5:5B:04:00:06 --char-write-req -a 0x0021 -n c2c5d80080ec71fad77aa138e29834e157c8ff
Characteristic value was written successfully

But my blinds does not move at all

I've tried running csrmesh in python 3.4.2 aswell (by changing the first line of csrmesh-cli to #!/usr/bin/python3, and running the script again). Still no movement on my blinds.

Do you have any tips or idea of how to resolve this?
How did you find out the magic number (0x73)? (by snooping the Bluetooth communication from your android device?)
Is the pin always 1234 for Teptron Move?

Thanks in advance!

[EDIT]
I totally forgot that I had to set a password for the mesh network when starting the Teptron app for the first time. After clearing the data from the app, thus forcing it to do yet another "first time start" I set a new password containing only four digits. I used the new password as the pin argument to csrmesch-cli and it works like a charm!
[/EDIT]

[t0mas]

Great! I'm still waiting for my second MOVE to be delivered, so I haven't been able to test how they respond in a group setting. How does yours react to different values for "objid" like 1 and 2? It should use 1 and 2 for the first and second unit and -1 for the first group if it works the same as some other csrmesh devices. But it seems not to always follow those things so possibly the creators of the MOVE implemented grouping in a different way.

[klasse]

One of my MOVE reacts to "objid" 1, the other reacts to "objid" 2. Both reacts to "objid" 0. However sometimes only one (randomly which) reacts to 0. And sometimes none reacts to a command. I haven't tested -1 yet.

I intend to dig deeper into the python code to check if it is possible to use some command to verify that the MOVE has accepted the command, and possibly do some re-sending.