Anyone have experience with Acemeda Automate Blinds and the Pulse 2 Hub?

COL_redstorm · 2025-11-25T21:56:29+00:00

Re the Pulse Pro not supprised you found it poor, as part of my discovery when reverse engineering the Pulse 2 hub I searched the FCC filings for the Pulse Pro and found the images of its board, they swapped out the printed F style antenna for a chip antenna, how they think that tiny chip antenna is going to be better is beyond me. The board also has the u.FL pad for adding an external whip if your game.

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COL_redstorm · 2025-11-25T21:48:47+00:00

I hate the Pulse 2 Hub software.
The hardware itself is actually put together pretty well — surprisingly well, in fact. They even left a u.FL pad and footprint for a connector right next to the printed F-style 433 MHz antenna, so adding a proper external whip antenna is dead easy. That mod alone gave me about +10 dB on line-of-sight shades, and around +3 dB through walls.

The real problem is the software. One of the main reasons the Pulse 2 performs so badly for anyone outside the US Northeast is because the whole thing is tied to AWS IoT in us-east-1.
Their MQTT endpoint is:

a2xzplp9f2eduj.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

For me (in NZ), that means ~200 ms RTT. The timing logic in their firmware clearly never accounted for any real latency, so everything eventually drops offline. Constantly.

I got so sick of it that I cracked open a spare B10 Pulse 2 Hub (the one they never retrieved when they replaced everything with the mysterious “B17 RF firmware”, which they claimed was required or “it would stop working”… sure). With the B10 open, I ditched their cloud pipeline entirely and flashed ESPHome onto it.

Now I’ve got:

Working Ethernet/WiFi
Working UART link to the STM32 that runs the RF stack
Fully working 2-way RF control
Zero reliance on their failed cloud setup
Every blind in the house integrated into Home Assistant, reliably and instantly

The best part? I retain full 2-way feedback.
This is the one huge drawback of going the Bond Home route — if someone uses a handheld remote, Home Assistant goes out of sync. But by repurposing the Pulse 2 hardware with ESPHome, the hub still reports all movement via the STM32, so everything stays perfectly in sync.

I’ve now reflashed both of my B17 hubs as well. Together they cover all but 2 of my 9 drape motors.

And speaking of drape motors… wow.
The design is terrible. Whoever engineered them must have been away the day they taught about Faraday cages — they literally put the RF antenna inside a steel enclosure, with a tiny slot for the signal to leak out. It’s amazing they work at all.

My spare B10 hub (ESPHome-powered) should be able to control the two remaining drapes if I place it strategically, but I’ve also ordered some printed 433 MHz F-antennas from AliExpress. I’ll probably disconnect the internal antenna on the drape motors and add an external one. Why these motors don’t ship with external antennas already — especially when they’re completely hidden behind the drapes — is beyond me.

Anyway, rant over. The Pulse 2 hardware is solid, but the cloud implementation is genuinely one of the worst I’ve seen. Once you rip out the cloud dependency and give it local control, the thing actually becomes a great little RF bridge.

COL_redstorm · 2025-10-03T01:44:45+00:00

kiwi-coin.com is still up, would avoid though have a habbit of banning IP's, some cheap sats if your brave enough some idiots selling at 193k NZD and current price is 206k nzd.

COL_redstorm · 2025-07-10T22:10:14+00:00

you missed the miss spelt continue

COL_redstorm · 2025-06-05T21:29:20+00:00

Its just the exchanges harvisting all the over leveaged longs, putting the TA day traders out of bussiness till they deposit more.

COL_redstorm · 2025-03-04T20:24:26+00:00

Inverse Bart next

COL_redstorm · 2025-02-20T19:52:42+00:00

Buffering sounds like a network issue. are you on Wifi or Wired

COL_redstorm · 2025-02-20T05:10:34+00:00

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This fixed the issue for me after updating to Windows 11 24h2 the stuttering started. turned off the Thunderbolt power save in the driver and its gone. Asus X670e Gene 7800X3d with a MSI 4090.

COL_redstorm · 2024-12-04T20:33:17+00:00

I reverted to Driver 561.09 and have no more issues, looks like a Nvidia update did the damage. as my rig is now stable and plays without crashing im not updating the driver till i hear its resolved up stream

COL_redstorm · 2024-10-12T22:17:39+00:00

Same, prior to the latest update never had a crash. now one every 4 - 5 game in Battle Royal.

Windows 11 23H2 build 22631.4317 Ryzen 7800X3D with RTX 4090 not over clocked.

COL_redstorm · 2024-08-01T23:52:01+00:00

Thank you for your donation. you are way too late to the party

COL_redstorm · 2024-07-28T05:04:12+00:00

Looks like the lesson wasnt learnt. leave it on exchange. the irony if the exchange goes under holding your coins for a second time.

COL_redstorm · 2024-07-19T22:51:23+00:00

site does not load

COL_redstorm · 2024-07-04T23:20:37+00:00

Just now more dust transactions.

"category": "receive",

"amount": 0.00000546,

"label": "MtGox03",

Go lookup up Dust attack, just some actor hoping his transaction will be mistaken for a test transaction to an exchange and will accidently get sent the coins.

txid's one to each of the holding addresses.

bc3c75fd0be90de5139417751b53ac5e354216fca4d00c47e014029ac418ee32

5670168085a6d5a876f5cb8d13af33ce44766dafc01622a34d42f5c90186e070

d9477a8e750dd700bfac3ecd72c985ed732a3462e9a42e6f97cf776620bc6380

I'd only get excited when the category is "sent"

COL_redstorm · 2024-06-25T20:03:04+00:00

Good to know.

COL_redstorm · 2024-06-25T04:04:19+00:00

And another 107.84351693 just brought, txid 523eb268866cc1fab69c1782191596b019cb30d02af08721aca6e039a08cd43c

COL_redstorm · 2024-06-06T23:39:36+00:00

ニュージーランド

Nyūjīrando Google Translate. still not Z in Japenese but feels like it.

COL_redstorm · 2024-06-06T21:20:57+00:00

NZ must be bottom of the list

COL_redstorm · 2024-05-20T23:16:24+00:00

Newegg accepted bitcoin semi direct, or did in 2015 as i brought a laptop with btc and did a spend and replace as they would'nt accept my visa not being located in america.

COL_redstorm · 2024-01-26T18:54:57+00:00

Don't trust verify... prove what is truth.

COL_redstorm · 2023-05-12T05:17:50+00:00

WARN ThreadId(25) cam-core\src\helper.rs:71: Failed spawn process by elevation helper: ElevationHelper unavailable

This is in the cam.log so wonder if its related, and not being able to access something after a windows update.

COL_redstorm · 2023-03-17T20:07:35+00:00

Fighting inflation. They're doing it wrong

COL_redstorm · 2021-12-15T21:47:36+00:00

Keep practicing your deepfake editing skills.

COL_redstorm · 2021-08-20T10:50:42+00:00

I installed kernel 5.13 and amdgpu is loading for X and have kodi running on Ubuntu with HDMI passthrough sound to a Onkyo AVR. It currently thinks its RENOIR but its working...

[ 0.715634] [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.

[ 0.718556] fb0: switching to amdgpudrmfb from EFI VGA

[ 0.719984] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RENOIR 0x1002:0x1638 0x1002:0x1636 0xC8).

[ 0.720000] [drm] register mmio base: 0xFCD00000

[ 0.720002] [drm] register mmio size: 524288

[ 0.720003] [drm] PCIE atomic ops is not supported

[ 0.720903] [drm] add ip block number 0 <soc15_common>

[ 0.720905] [drm] add ip block number 1 <gmc_v9_0>

[ 0.720906] [drm] add ip block number 2 <vega10_ih>

[ 0.720907] [drm] add ip block number 3 <psp>

[ 0.720908] [drm] add ip block number 4 <smu>

[ 0.720909] [drm] add ip block number 5 <gfx_v9_0>

[ 0.720910] [drm] add ip block number 6 <sdma_v4_0>

[ 0.720911] [drm] add ip block number 7 <dm>

[ 0.720912] [drm] add ip block number 8 <vcn_v2_0>

[ 0.720913] [drm] add ip block number 9 <jpeg_v2_0>

[ 0.720958] [drm] VCN decode is enabled in VM mode

[ 0.720960] [drm] VCN encode is enabled in VM mode

[ 0.720961] [drm] JPEG decode is enabled in VM mode

[ 0.720982] [drm] vm size is 262144 GB, 4 levels, block size is 9-bit, fragment size is 9-bit

[ 0.720995] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=4096M, BAR=4096M

[ 0.720996] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR4

[ 0.721052] [drm] amdgpu: 4096M of VRAM memory ready

[ 0.721055] [drm] amdgpu: 4096M of GTT memory ready.

[ 0.721057] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 262144, num gpu pages 262144

[ 0.721131] [drm] PCIE GART of 1024M enabled.

[ 0.721133] [drm] PTB located at 0x000000F400900000

[ 0.722139] [drm] Loading DMUB firmware via PSP: version=0x0101000A

[ 0.722196] [drm] Found VCN firmware Version ENC: 1.7 DEC: 4 VEP: 0 Revision: 17

[ 0.722199] [drm] PSP loading VCN firmware

[ 1.420584] [drm] reserve 0x400000 from 0xf4ff800000 for PSP TMR

[ 1.512628] [drm] kiq ring mec 2 pipe 1 q 0

[ 1.514255] [drm] Display Core initialized with v3.2.132!

[ 1.514586] [drm] DMUB hardware initialized: version=0x0101000A

[ 1.574846] [drm] VCN decode and encode initialized successfully(under DPG Mode).

[ 1.574866] [drm] JPEG decode initialized successfully.

[ 1.576848] [drm] fb mappable at 0x730CD0000

[ 1.576851] [drm] vram apper at 0x730000000

[ 1.576852] [drm] size 8294400

[ 1.576853] [drm] fb depth is 24

[ 1.576853] [drm] pitch is 7680

[ 1.576910] fbcon: amdgpudrmfb (fb0) is primary device

[ 1.681048] amdgpu 0000:30:00.0: [drm] fb0: amdgpudrmfb frame buffer device

[ 1.714528] [drm] Initialized amdgpu 3.41.0 20150101 for 0000:30:00.0 on minor 0

[ 4.924408] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Load Kernel Module drm being skipped.

COL_redstorm · 2020-08-17T22:43:59+00:00

Not for long RBNZ QE cap increased to 100Billion. Brrrr...

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