Automate Your Blinds in Home Assistant with Switchbot Smart Blinds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- If you're looking to automate your home with smart technology, then you need to check out the Switchbot Blind Tilt. They make the perfect smart blinds for anyone who wants to improve their home technology.
In this video, we'll take a look at how to set up Switchbot smart blinds in Home Assistant. After watching this video, you'll be able to automate your blinds with ease!
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The size of the blind tilt itself is 48.8 x 29.2 x 210 mm (1.9 x 1.1 x 8.3 in.)
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:08 What's in the box?
00:02:06 How to install the SwitchBot Blind Tilt
00:05:13 How to configure the SwitchBot Blind Tilt
00:05:43 How to calibrate the SwitchBot Blind Tilt
00:06:30 Test the SwitchBot Blind Tilt App
00:06:54 How to configure the SwitchBot Blind Tilt in Home Assistant
00:08:17 How to add the SwitchBot Blinbd Tilt to a Dashboard in Home Assistant.
00:09:33 How to group SwitchBot Blind Tilts in Home Assistant.
00:10:49 The SwitchBot Blind Tilt works with these services.
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It's very nice, but incredibly expensive if you want it on all your windows !
nice Ed, Thanks
Fantastic review and thank you for going over everything that comes in the box in detail.
Thank you for the compliment!
Just installed one of these about a week ago, it’s so easy and works great. The solar panel is marvellous as you don’t really notice it tucked behind the blind
Yes, it's really easy to set up. Ik takes just a matter of minutes to install it.
Very Nice video Ed, seems to be a great product.
Thank you Marco!
Great video, your videos are top notch, easy to understand. My blinds are two strings to tilt them, so I am out of luck, unless anyone has any ideas
Oh yes, that won't work indeed.
Lewis (Everything Smarthome) has a video for a diy solution for these kind of blinds.
⭐ Order the SwitchBot Blind Tilt with a 10% discount here: amzn.to/3KbgMcE ⭐
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Now we just need a SwitchBot that pulls the blinds up.
Do you really roll up your blind on a daily basis?
@@SmartHomeJunkie No, but the dream is to be able to be able to fully automate blinds and windows.
@@SmartHomeJunkie no but I would if it were automated 😂
Thanks for watching! Let me know what curtain or blind solutions you use in the comments!
Could you make some tutorials about how to use frigate? This could be an awesome idea. And i believe audiences would love to see this awesome AI technology
Thanks. It's on my list.
Does anybody know if they also work via esphome Bluetooth Proxies?
Yes, they will.
When I click and drag the slider, the mouse moves much further than the slider does on screen. Any idea why this is?
You need the hub 2 for this to work correct?
No, it works without Hub using your phone or Home Assistant. You only need the Hub of you want to use it with Google Home and such. I explain this in the video 🤷🏼
Thanks for the video. I assume the Home Assistant with the Bluetooth dongle needs to be within Bluetooth signal range of the blind. Is that correct? My HA unit is on the opposite side of the house from where my office window is located.
Yes, correct. You can also use Bluetooth proxies to extend the range.
Another great video Ed, Thank you! Will it work with Bluetooth proxy or do we need the dongle?
Bluetooth proxy should work as well. Basically you should have some sort of Bluetooth connection to Home Assistant. I use a dongle for that, but as long as Bluetooth signals can be retrieved by Home Assistant, I expect that you should be fine.
I use ESP32 Proxy. It works well
@@FrankyB295 Thank you for this info! 👍🏻👍🏻
I bought 2 of these about a month ago for my office and they work great. I installed HA on my gaming PC with the intent on transferring it to mini-pc or a raspberry pi (if they ever become available), it's a temporary solution to learn how HA works and cost saving for now. My HA instance is done via Oracle VM Virtual Box, but the virtual box refuses to see the bluetooth adapter that came native with my motherboard. So I have not been able to get these working with HA. Any suggestions to get HA/Virtual Box to utilize bluetooth that is already available, because I haven't found any information on it. Or maybe I'm just dumb, /shrug
No idea really. I use a Bluetooth dongle. I think virtualbox should be able to recognize that.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I went ahead and ordered a dongle and it should be here tomorrow. Here's to hoping it works. Thanks for responding btw!
Nice!!! Do we have to use the Switchbot app if we don't have a Switchbot hub or can it all be done from within Home Assistant? Also, what USB dongle is needed?
You need the app to set it up, but you do not need the Hub. See the description for the dongle that works with Home Assistant.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Great work!!! Keep up with the awesome videos. Thank you!!!
Great job as always, Ed! Funny timing, because I just finished installing my first blind tilt 12 hours before you released this video! I've got it working great with the native SwitchBot app, but now of course I want to integrate it into Home Assistant.
I have a large home, so my NUC running HA is a long distance from the blinds. Do you have any recommendation for my situation? I looked at the Bluetooth dongle you linked, but I don't think running a 300 foot USB cable for it would be wise :D
Eventually I hope to have about 15 of these switchbot blinds throughout my house, all locally controlled by HA with zero cloud dependency.
Any recommendation is highly appreciated!
You can use ESP32 Bluetooth proxies.
That's great to hear! Look into Bluetooth proxies with an esp32. This way you can cover your whole house.
@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for the recommendation. I was hesitant to use ESP32 because I'd never used them or ESP Home. So decided to first try using a Shelly Plug instead, because the HA docs said they were supported as Bluetooth proxies. But I couldn't get the Shelly to do the trick, so I returned the Shelly and finally decided to try ESP32. I should have tried ESP32 to begin with, because it's working like a charm. I struggled a tiny bit to get the right firmware installed on the ESP32, but other than that, it was easy.
Now I just need to find a case for the ESP32. It's not a very aesthetically pleasing solution having bare ESP32 devices sitting around, something my wife quickly pointed out 😂
If you know any good ESP32 cases or tricks for hiding them away, I'd love to hear about it!
Thanks as always my friend, you are a gift to the HA community
@@BallsworthBallsbury Thank you for your kind words. I own a 3D printer, so I print the cases myself. I really love to have a 3D printer. Never thought I needed one, but it's so versatile.
@@SmartHomeJunkie this might be the most expensive comment I ever read lol!
I've been considering buying a 3d printer for some time, but this pushed me over the hump. I'm doing it!
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Thank you!
Do they make these for blinds that use 2 strings to open/close? None of my blinds have a wand.
This one works with a wand only.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks for the response, Ed!
@@cakekomo No problem!
@@cakekomo I have just purchased 3 of these blind tilts to test. I plan to convert my string blinds to wand by replacing the mechanism inside for a want tilt mech instead of string mech.
Too bad that they didn’t make it zigbee. But great video once again Ed!
Thanks! Yeah, I prefer Zigbee too, but since we have Bluetooth proxies, Bluetooth is not that bad anymore. But Zigbee is still the faster option at the moment. Switchbot is going to support Matter shortly. I am excited about what it will bring. In the beginning it will only be their Hub.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Ah yeah, me too. I think Matter will be big.
@@SmartHomeJunkie have to say I prefer this being Bluetooth. I suffer from zigbee and Wi-Fi congestion a bit and Bluetooth with the proxies just works so well I was delighted to see this was Bluetooth. It works incredibly quickly
@@iainhay2823 Yes, it does work quickly using the app of SwitchBot. Using Home Assistant it is a bit slower (in my case).
Not the most elegang looking solution. Will be interesting to see further revisions in the future.
I get what you mean. I think it's great that you can still use the wand manually as well.