Shades for Hubitat

[Eaton_Blumenstein]

Just started the final procedure of smarthomeifying my house. Last step was Window Shades. I picked up some Ikea smart shades that work PERFECTLY with my Hubitat. I was able to add them to my HE Dash, but unable to add them to my SharpTools dash, I do a search for them, but they do not show up.

Reading in some searches , it seems they are not in SharpTools? is there a work around by chance for HE?

thank you
Eaton

[James]

Hi @Eaton_Blumenstein, you can add them to SharpTools as long as the device handler you used for the shades has Sensor or Actuator implemented. See below for how to add the unrecognized things in Hubitat.

How To Authorize Unrecognized Things

Thanks for the feedback! On Hubitat, the process is similar. If you’ve connected Hubitat to SharpTools using the Manage Connections feature on your SharpTools.io user page, you’ll be presented with the list of core supported capabilities. If the device does not implement one of the core capabilities, then you’ll need to manually authorize it in the list of Additional Devices. It will need to implement at least the Actuator or Sensor as noted in my post above. To authorize Additional Devices i…