Z WAVE SHADE CONTROL HOW TO
Z WAVE SHADE CONTROL INSTALL

If your shade has a metal fascia or a cassette, make sure that the antenna of the micromodule is outside of the metal to ensure optimal Z-Wave communication. Please note: Z-Wave is an RF communication.

Z WAVE SHADE CONTROL INSTALL

Install the Zipato Micromodule Motor Controller, following the diagram below: Be sure that the shade is level to avoid any issues with the fabric вЂњtelescoping.вЂќ Install the shade per the fabricatorвЂ™s instructions. If thereвЂ™s no room for a standard outlet, your electrician can install a Sillites self-contained receptacle, SILSCRW. Although a bare wire with wire nuts can be used, to pass inspection, the electrician will likely need to terminate the AC line. ItвЂ™s recommended that you have your electrician run an AC wire to the left side of the window.

Zipato Micromodule motor controller, SKU ZIPPHPAN08US.

Somfy-powered shade using a standard, 4-wire, AC motor.

Z WAVE SHADE CONTROL HOW TO

This article will walk you through the shade installation as well as how to add the shade to your Vera controller. I have nearly 30 shades, so that can eat up some valuable bandwidth.Looking to control some shades with Z-Wave? Worthington Distribution has a solution using a Somfy standard, 4-wire, AC motor with ZipatoвЂ™s Micromodule Motor Controller. Might need to switch again to the generic since Ill probably be opening a ticketвЂ¦ just curious are your blinds being polled every minute? this seemed odd to me/very frequent but I didnвЂ™t know if this was due to the swf dth or something else im not seeing. I did switch to the generic dth when I was troubleshooting but didnвЂ™t notice a change so went back to SWF.

Any one have any tips? I have done z-wave repairs all day with no improvement in this aspect. Heres an example from the log below where commands sent take 8+ minutes to execute.

I built a piston in webCoRE to control my shades and the piston is working fine, sending commands to the shades as it should but the shades are taking forever to execute the command.

Im having an issue with the control of my shades.

Z wave shade control