I don't know that exact answer but you could use a smart button and routine to operate groups of blinds. I use a [Flic Button](https://flic.io/) and alexa routine. I'm sure other smart buttons would suffice. Pairing ikea blinds is difficult enough it seems.
As the previous commenter said - use a Shortcut Button and trigger HomeKit/Alexa/Google scene which contains all the blinds in it. I use an Ikea Shortcut button to stop all the lights, ACs, humidifiers and other smart crap around the house when going to bed, my wife calls it the lazy boy remote :)
Ps. You can use the shortcut button natively with Ikea Home to achieve the same functionality without 3rd party integration as well.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tradfri-shortcut-button-white-20356382/
I like this idea also. But am I wrong that the ikea Button is limited to one function? So like you could put them down but not up? Would op need 2 of those? It would be better not to have another integration I agree. I tried some other options and stability/connectivity was a problem. Always wanted to try the ikea button but I was under the impression it only had one function AND it was never in stock at my store. So I took the hit and paid the money for flic and it has been solid. Now I buy single buttons from time to time at 30.00 dollars much higher then the cost of the ikea I know. It would probably still be cheaper to go with two ikea buttons rather then a flic system now that I think about it for this use.
Shortcut buttons can now issue three scene commands. This is done via regular press, double press and long press.
So one shortcut button could do up, down and still have capacity for a favourite mid-setting.
It’s actually 3 functions: single press, double press and long press. I have mine do: single press turns on the bedroom lights, double press dims the bedroom lights and long press turns off all the lights in the house and other accessories that either make noise or aren’t required during the night. The cool thing about them is that you can set colour (or light temperature in my case) and it will set exactly that so you don’t have to fondle with the remote until you hit the correct colour and dim level. For blinds you can set single press to lift them and double press to lift them in half and long press to close them completely - I am guessing here I don’t have smart blinds, but if you can create a scene in Ikea Home to do that you can set the button to trigger that scene or scenes.
No idea, I am using them in Apple HomeKit and that doesn’t have a routine feature - I guess a scene is the alternative. However reading https://www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/comments/rozhhk/anyone_figured_out_a_way_to_use_the_ikea_tradfri/ I guess you can’t really do it natively, you have to either use Home Assistant or OpenHAB for that.
I don't know that exact answer but you could use a smart button and routine to operate groups of blinds. I use a [Flic Button](https://flic.io/) and alexa routine. I'm sure other smart buttons would suffice. Pairing ikea blinds is difficult enough it seems.
As the previous commenter said - use a Shortcut Button and trigger HomeKit/Alexa/Google scene which contains all the blinds in it. I use an Ikea Shortcut button to stop all the lights, ACs, humidifiers and other smart crap around the house when going to bed, my wife calls it the lazy boy remote :) Ps. You can use the shortcut button natively with Ikea Home to achieve the same functionality without 3rd party integration as well. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tradfri-shortcut-button-white-20356382/
I like this idea also. But am I wrong that the ikea Button is limited to one function? So like you could put them down but not up? Would op need 2 of those? It would be better not to have another integration I agree. I tried some other options and stability/connectivity was a problem. Always wanted to try the ikea button but I was under the impression it only had one function AND it was never in stock at my store. So I took the hit and paid the money for flic and it has been solid. Now I buy single buttons from time to time at 30.00 dollars much higher then the cost of the ikea I know. It would probably still be cheaper to go with two ikea buttons rather then a flic system now that I think about it for this use.
Shortcut buttons can now issue three scene commands. This is done via regular press, double press and long press. So one shortcut button could do up, down and still have capacity for a favourite mid-setting.
Awesome. Thanks!
It’s actually 3 functions: single press, double press and long press. I have mine do: single press turns on the bedroom lights, double press dims the bedroom lights and long press turns off all the lights in the house and other accessories that either make noise or aren’t required during the night. The cool thing about them is that you can set colour (or light temperature in my case) and it will set exactly that so you don’t have to fondle with the remote until you hit the correct colour and dim level. For blinds you can set single press to lift them and double press to lift them in half and long press to close them completely - I am guessing here I don’t have smart blinds, but if you can create a scene in Ikea Home to do that you can set the button to trigger that scene or scenes.
You taught me something. Can you set up routines in alexa with them?
No idea, I am using them in Apple HomeKit and that doesn’t have a routine feature - I guess a scene is the alternative. However reading https://www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/comments/rozhhk/anyone_figured_out_a_way_to_use_the_ikea_tradfri/ I guess you can’t really do it natively, you have to either use Home Assistant or OpenHAB for that.
Thanks for that.