Advanced rules to control blinds

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to come up with more advanced automation rule to control my blinds.

I have button for up/down direction connected to unipi board and two switches to control blinds.

Basically what I’m trying to achieve is rule like this:

when contact of unipiDigitalInput-5 is opened then (when unipiRelay-7 is on then turn unipiRelay-7 off else unipiRelay-7 on

Then I would have another rule saying (to automaticaly power off blinds):

when unipiRelay-7 is on for 20seconds then turn unipiRelay-7 off

Main idea is, that you press the button, and blinds will go down. If you press button again, blinds will stop. If relay is on more then 20seconds turn it off.

Can you please advise me how to make rule like this?

Thank you!

Hi jirkaehm,
i am testing also pimatic for my blinds.

I use a 4xRelay and have to activate/deactivate the relays in a special order with time delays between.

• Relay 1+2 activate and 1 second delay (this turn off the power from manual switch and wait before send the next up/down command)
• Relay 3 activate for 20 seconds (my blind needs 20 seconds for complete open/close)
• Relay 4 activate/deactivate for the direction up/down
• Reset all Relays

It is possible to make one line of this?
Yes it is!

switch s1 on and switch s2 on and after 1 seconds switch s3 on and switch s4 on and after 20 seconds switch s4 off and switch s3 off and after 1 seconds switch s2 off and switch s1 off

for “jirkaehm” it means two rules
When

contact of unipiDigitalInput-5 is opened and unipiRelay-7 is on

Then

turn unipiRelay-7 off after 20 seconds turn unipiRelay-7 on

When

contact of unipiDigitalInput-5 is opened and unipiRelay-7 is off

Then

turn unipiRelay-7 on after 20 seconds turn unipiRelay-7 off

Thanks a lot to the development of pimatic.

If you need a german translation inside i will help.

Greets from Germany
Knot Together

Hi Knot,

Thank you for your hints but it’s not working for me, everytime I press butou two automation rules hit in the same time…

I currently use pidome in background to do this task, and in pidome it’s very easy.
I attached screenshot from it, is it possible to do something like that on pimatic?

Thank you!!