[Solved] Controlling a shutter with a physical switch

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Hi there! I have a shortage of understanding on how to control a shutter device from Pimatic. I’m running Pimatic with Homeduino and have connected a shutter(Kaku ASUN-650) and a RF Wall Switch(AWST-8800). I have connected the wall switch to the shutter with two simple rules:
IF wall-switch is turned on THEN move shutter up
IF wall-switch is turned off THEN move shutter down
However,after controlling the shutter from the Pimatic web interface, switching the wall switch is often uneffective, and only starts working after switching wall switch on and off twice.

This seems rather trivial, but I would like the switch to always work with just one touch, how should I go about this?

Hello @Zomer i don’t have shutter devices,
but:

• have the shutters an endpoint? so you could still press up and the shutter is up already and it doesn’t move?
• then you could use something like this i think:
  • your Rule+ for 30 seconds
    or what it needs to turn up…

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Chris

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your help. I have implemented your suggestions yesterday, and sofar, I have had not troubles! I tought things would be a bit more complicated and a solution would have involved a dummy device or so, yet all that was needed now just seems to be “for 30 seconds”. Nice!

A few days later, I have come to the following rule in order to make this work when controlled from three separate switches:
when [Garage door hand switch is turned on or Bike remote 1 is turned on or Bike remote 2 is turned on or position of garage-door is \"up\"] and $garage-door-up-or-down = 0 for 5 seconds then set $garage-door-up-or-down to 1 and raise garage-door and turn Garage door hand switch on and turn Bike remote 1 on and turn Bike remote 2 on",

and

when [Garage door hand switch is turned off or Bike remote 1 is turned off or Bike remote 2 is turned off or position of garage-door is \"down\"] and $garage-door-up-or-down = 0 for 5 seconds then set $garage-door-up-or-down to 0 and raise garage-door and turn Garage door hand switch off and turn Bike remote 1 off and turn Bike remote 2 off",

I think the rule is quite complex as it involves a variable in order to be able to set all other switches in the right position without imposing and open or closed action for the garage door.

I think the main reason for this complexity is that Pimatic doesn’t accept an ‘on’ signal from a switch when the switch is already in the ‘on’ position, or a ‘off’ signal from a switch when the switch is already in the ‘off’ position.

Since i’m quite new to the Pimatic rule system I wouldn’t be amazed if the is a much simpler workaround, if any one knows of one, please share!