- #Bali shade control by google home how to#
- #Bali shade control by google home full#
- #Bali shade control by google home trial#
- #Bali shade control by google home windows#
#Bali shade control by google home windows#
* One really nice trick that you can do with your voice is you can now open your windows to be open by a certain percentage instead of just open or just closed. You may find it easier to just use the "set to open/close" verbiage instead of remembering that you can tell Google Home to close things in certain rooms, but not open them. Instead, I you'll have to use "Set the **All** the windows **in** room_ (the kitchen) to **OPEN**". * "Open **All** the windows **in** room_ (the kitchen)" will NEVER work lol.
* "Close **All** the Windows **in** room_ (the kitchen)" will always work * "Open **All** the Windows" will *sometimes* work lol * "Close **All** the Windows" will always work
#Bali shade control by google home trial#
So this is the result of a lot of Trial and error on my part. So go to the Google Home App -> Settings -> Works with Google, and then sign in to your Samsung SmartThings. Google changes their app all the time, but as of right now, it is available as a "works with google home" option. Or else your blinds will end up in a different Google Home Room called "Master Bedroom" when they translate over.ģ) Pair Samsung SmartThings with Google home.
This will make the translation a lot easier for you imo when you pair Samsung SmartThings to Google Home.įor instance, if your bedroom is called "Bedroom" instead of "Master Bedroom" in google home, put your bedroom blinds in a room called "Bedroom" in Samsung SmartThings. AND MAKE THEM THE SAME NAMES AS THE ROOM NAMES YOU HAVE IN GOOGLE HOME. * Make Rooms in Samsung SmartThings and put your blinds in each of the rooms. (I have not yet Tested if "Bedroom Window 1" counts as a window, so maybe that's a better naming configuration) So "LeftBedroom Window" is a window, but "Left Bedroom Window" is not. As of right now, Google home will only identify windows as the second word in a name once everything is paired. You might end up with stupid names like "LeftBedroom Window" instead of "Left Bedroom Window", but this actually SUPER important. * Rename your blinds and only use two words, the second one being "Window". You will know it worked because the shade's button will stop blinking green and flash solid green for 1 second. Here are the mechanical steps from here:ġ) You'll need to factory reset each of your shades by pressing and holding the one button on the shade for 7 seconds until it blinks orange.Ģ) Set up the SmartThings Hub, and then add each of the shades as a device by pressing and holding the one button on the shade for 3 seconds until it blinks green. You've bought your blinds, you've set them up, and you've bought a Samsung SmartThings Hub. Well, Google Home doesn't natively support ZWave, right? So you have to run through some sort of Hub. With an IR one, you have to set up repeaters and your windows have to have line of sight, so I chose to go with ZWave. There seem to be two options, one via Infrared (IR) and one via ZWave.
#Bali shade control by google home how to#
So, now that I picked blinds, I had to pick how to get google assistant/google home to interact with them. If you wait for a 10% or 15% off sale, and factor in the 4% cashback you get by buying through Costco, it ends up well worth it. They are Bali blinds, which as far as I can tell are just the generic version of Graber - They're made by the same company and if you look closely enough, you can tell that certain fabrics are the same, but just with different names.
That was almost enough for me to give up on the project entirely because holy shit, that's the price of a used car.īutttt, Costco offers blinds via. Even some internet retailers like ZebraBlinds were going to be roughly $800 to $1000 a window, so I was still looking at roughly $14,000 Quotes were eye poppingly expensive - Cheapest quote I got was roughly $9,000 most expensive was $16,000 for 16 windows through the house.
#Bali shade control by google home full#
I got several quotes from full service companies offering Hunter Douglas, Somfy, Graber, you name it. I also didn't want to spend a bajillion dollars doing so. Name, my blinds so I never have to go manually adjust a blind ever again. Like most of you on this subreddit, I want to voice control things. When I was googling to find out how to do this, I found the information sparse, so hoping to help address that problem. Just finished this adventure, running into a lot of obstacles, false starts, and confusing info in the process, and wanted to write down the steps in case anybody else in the future wanted to try something similar.
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