Controlling Blinds.com RF Dooya Motors with Arduino and Vera

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Hi All,

Everyone on this forum has been so helpful to me that I wanted to (hopefully) give back a little…

I recently figured out how to control my Blinds.com motorized cellular shades (Cellular & Honeycomb Shades | Custom Shades | Blinds.com) with my Vera 3. The blinds have Dooya DV24CE motors (which use a 433 MHz RF for remote control) built into them but I couldn’t find any already built RF transmitter (aside from modding a remote) that integrated directly with the Vera. I had recently started building Arduino sensors with Henrik’s (HEK) amazing MySensors Arduino Sensor Plugin (http://www.mysensors.org) so I decided to try to build my own. Thanks to many helpful resources on the internet I was able to control my blinds using an Arduino RF transmitter. The project only cost $1.50 because I already had some sensors and the Arduino gateway. If you are starting from scratch it should be under $20. There is a little learning curve but it is the most fun project I have had in a while!

Here is a video if anyone’s interested: Integrating Blinds.com Motorized Cellular Shades with MiCasaVerde Vera using Arduino - YouTube

Also, a write up on how to do it yourself: Controlling Blinds.com RF Dooya Motors with Arduino and Vera | MySensors Forum

Pete

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Great job, thank you for the write-up. A lot of people should find this useful.

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Hi Pete! Very interesting workaround, could you please help me build one for me? Can you PM me?

Thanks!

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The Dooya RF are also compatible with the RFXTrx Blinds1 ? T6 DC106 on All Channels

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[quote=“frantona, post:3, topic:180375”]Hi Pete! Very interesting workaround, could you please help me build one for me? Can you PM me?

Thanks![/quote]

I think I may have already replied in a different place because I never saw this post. Please check out the mysensors.org site for more info and help building your own.

Good to know, thanks for sharing!

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YOODA as stated on the compatibility list uses the same model numbers as DOOYA hence, like DUA are they rebranded?

http://code.mios.com/trac/mios_rfxtrx

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Ping. What Brientim said. Has anyone recently tried RFXtrx with the blinds?

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Dooya has Z-wave version motor curtain. Anyone tried it on Vera Plus before ?

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I recently configured 7 DOOYA motors with an RFXCOM (RFXtrx), it has been working fine for 3 weeks. I can control all blinds using Vera controller.

It works with DC106, YOODA protocol.

I had blinds totally configured with their RF remote controls, then I just added each of the blinds following the instructions to add a second controller for each the blinds motors, to configure the blinds on Vera I followed the same guide you find on threads for Somfy Blinds with RFXtrx except for the protocol, use the one stated above.

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I brought an RF Dooya motor to test the connection with Vera Plus, but i could not figure how to connect it. i tried searching for a thread explaining how to connect somfy to the RFXtrx as you recomended but i could not find that too…

can you list the steps for adding the dooya motor please or point me to the somfy RFXtrx thread.

many thanks,