Hey everyone,

I’m currently setting up my Home Assistant Green and so far most things work fine - I’ve been able to migrate all my Zigbee accessories over and also managed to get Matter/Thread working using the Connect ZBT-1.

There is one accessory that I just can’t get to work though and that’s my Eve Motion blinds window cover. Pairing them via Thread worked perfectly fine and basic diagnostics seem to work too, however I’m unable to control it in any meaningful way like opening or closing the blinds. The respective actions just aren’t available. Some basic functions like identifying the device work though. When I used them in my old Home Kit Home (also via Matter/Thread) with my Home Pod as my Thread border router they worked without any issues. This leads me to believe there might be some sort of misconfiguration I don’t fully understand and that the device interview function is unable to fix on its own.

Did anybody manage to integrate them into their home yet or has any other suggestions on what to do?

These are the exact blinds: https://csa-iot.org/csa_product/eve-motionblinds-6/

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Cheers

  • langweiligeflunder@feddit.orgOP
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    6 days ago

    I just found a workaround - not sure why it works, I found out via trial and error, but I’m currently reporting to Eve support.

    It seems the blinds cannot complete setup via Home Assistant and OTBR and get stuck in a state where they are successfully paired with HA but do not expose any controls (yet). In order to get the controls to show up, it seems to be necessary to complete some more setup steps via the Eve iOS app.

    What worked for me is the following:

    1. Pair the blinds with HA using Matter/OTBR
    2. Generate a matter code via the Matter integration so the blinds can be added to another hub
    3. Add the blinds via the newly generated code to an Apple Home hub, e.g. an Apple TV or Home Pod. The device does not need to support Thread as this is still handled by your Home Assistant. If you are exposing your devices to Apple Home via the Apple Home integration, you should see the same blinds twice, this is intended (one comes from the integration and the other one is connected directly to the Apple Home hub)
    4. The Eve app should now be able to discover the blinds and offer you to complete setup
    5. The blinds should now expose their respective controls in HA
    6. You may now remove the duplicate blinds from your Apple Home hub (not the one paired via HA)

    Hope this helps!

    Cheers