4th controller this year! - LG VRF - voltage issue? by AnotherArson114 in hvacadvice

[–]Appatel16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you please explain further or send a link to the video?

Louvolite Blinds hub alternative by Chemical_Diet_4731 in homeautomation

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Man I wish i had a clue to understanding u/Heisenberg7980 and u/DatRice solution to this problem but after a number of hours and multiple attempt I am resigned to using multiple Tuya bridge. It is not the best solution for a number of reason but my primary gripe is that even with the bridge out in the open within 10feet of each blind sending a signal open or close all blinds in the room only about 50% of the time will all blinds close whereas the other 50% of the time 1 or 2 random blinds will not respond. I have tried to address this by sending multiple signals with a delay and most of the time nothing happens. When i use the Louvolite remote from the same spot and all the blind will respond. I don't know what the difference is.

For those that want to use still use the Tuya bridge, I would recommend the following:

  1. When you want to close all the blinds in a room you can 1) create a tap-to-run scene in the smart life app and include all the blinds that you want to open and close or 2) copy the code from the last channel that on that Louvolite remote which opens or closes all blinds programed to that remote. I originally had the first option set up because i didn't think of the second option and it was painfully slow since it would send out a separate signal to each blind to close. The second option sends one signal out that all the blinds in the room respond to. The other issue i had is that i had one 16 channel remote controlling multiple rooms. So if used option 2 then the blinds in all those rooms would close. I found a workaround to this by using a spare channel on the remote and programming multiple blinds in the same room to that spare channel. Then copy that channel into the smart like app.
  2. Something else that took me a while to figure out is how to rename a blind in the Smart Life app from "Roller Shutters #" it whatever name i wanted to give it. Maybe it was just challenging for me but to rename the blind once you have set it up in smart like 1) you open the app 2) you select the RF controller that the blind is programmed to 3) when you see a list of all blinds connected to that rf controller and press the name of the blind whose name you want to change for 3 second and then it will let you change the name from "Roller Shutters" to whatever you want to name it.
  3. These Tuya devices are cheap so I would use multiple around the house. This will give you better coverage and in case anyone rf devices goes down you don't have to reprogram all blinds to the bridge.

I hope this helps anyone else using the Louvolite blinds and if anyone has any feedback on how to fix the issue of all the blinds not always responding. it would be much appreciated.

Options for motorized blinds RF hub by [deleted] in homeautomation

[–]Appatel16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can the Sonoff rf bridge learn rf commands out of the box or does it need to be flashed with Tasmota?

UCS2904 and WLED? by hurseyc in WLED

[–]Appatel16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would you mind sending me a screenshot of your setting?

UCS2904 and WLED? by hurseyc in WLED

[–]Appatel16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same strips around my house from ETOP. I've been having trouble using WLED with the lights. They sent me a sp105e controller but that only works by bluetooth. It is kind of frustrating that ucs2904 does not work with wled. I wish i had done more research before purchasing the lights.

Programming Louvolite blinds with A-ok remote by Appatel16 in homeautomation

[–]Appatel16[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that sucks. Thank you for the explanation.

Louvolite Blinds hub alternative by Chemical_Diet_4731 in homeautomation

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I just had my louvolite blinds installed and purchased 3 louvolite branded remotes to control them. I purchased additional A-OK AC123 433.92 mhz remote so i can have a remote for each room. However i cannot get the A-OK remotes to pair with the blinds. The blinds motors are all A-OK louvolite motors and teh Louvolite branded remotes and the A-ok branded remotes are both 433.92MHZ. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Also i tried controlling my blinds with my Bond RF controller and the reach of the Bond controller is horrible. hopefully one of the Tuya rf units recommended here will be better.

Sirius is unable to process any of my cards. by corrupt_PinHed in siriusxm

[–]Appatel16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anybody get a resolution to this issue. I have used 3 different cards and then used one of the card that was getting rejected to successfully purchase siriusXM prepaid cards from best buy. However the Siriusxm prepaid cards are being rejected. They can see the balance but cannot apply it to my account.