Somfy Blinds Integration into SmartThings

[nattyb]

My Somfy-SmartThings Integration

There is a long thread about how to integrate Somfy Motorized Blinds (Somfy Thread) with Smartthings but I wanted to provide a step by step guide on how I did it. This was a 6 month project in the making between research, pricing out different installers and getting it done. The Somfy Motors, installation costs and zWave Module cost me $1800 total). What made this more complicated was these blinds were purchased from Home Depot 2 years ago and are designed by Hunter Douglas, but are not manufactured by them. The below steps are all AFTER you have motorized your blinds, purchased the zRTSII contoller (Somfy zRTSII) and have programmed your TELIS remote control. You can try and get this part from Lowe’s for $95 by ordering it in the store. I also tested the Somfy MyLink Hub, but for $…

This thread is your best bet. It’s what I referenced years ago to set mine up. Although right now it’s not working for me. I’m having the same issue as the original poster in this thread.

I was able to re-publish the device handler for the ZRTSII to get it to populate when re-adding. However, the device handlers for the shades themselves still don’t work when including the virtual nodes from the ZRTSII. I get a “success” message, but then nothing ever pops up in SmartThings.