More than one motor-shutter (Aeotec pico shutter)

Devices & Integrations
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Is it possible to control several roller shutter motors (5) using a Pico Shutter?
At the moment, the roller shutters are opened and closed using a switch and stopped at the top and bottom by limit switches.

I hope I’ve explained it properly…

BR

Ansgar

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With Aeotec’s proprietary Edge driver, you can detach the physical switches from the local action.

Once you’ve done that, the physical switches do not directly act on the shutter, instead they become independent triggers for any routine you’d like to run. So if you want to control all the shutters in a room from one set of switches, you can make a routine that opens or closes all the blinds from one switch trigger.

Calibration results would still be stored in each shutter controller individually, so at least full-open and full-closed should be consistent across all blinds. Everything inbetween will most certainly not be exactly identical across all of them, so your “50% open” positions will trigger some OCD.

In the driver settings, find “S1 Local Control Mode” and “S2 Local Control Mode” and set to Disabled.

[Just to note, the S1 and S2 switch events are avaliable as triggers even if you don’t disable Local Control Mode - but for consistency in how the rollers are controlled you may want this Disabled.]

Edit: Just to make it obvious, you’re still going to need one Pico Shutter for each motor.

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Hey Peter,

Thanks for your help!
I’ve just had an idea: I’d actually only need to simulate a toggle switch that turns all the motors on at the same time and switches them off again after a certain amount of time… then I’d only need one component for five motors.
Do Aeotec or Shelly offer something like that… I haven’t been able to find anything at a glance.

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You really want an actual motor controller here. The difference to an ordinary dual switch is that the motor controller firmware detects and memorizes the end positions, and turns power to the motor off when an end position is reached. Auto calibration doesn’t exist in a plain dual switch either.

The Aeotec Pico appears to do that via its power monitoring capability - you can actually see how the Pico Switch Duo and the Pico Shutter share the same hardware, but run substantially different firmware.