2 docs tagged with "home-assistant"

Roto Designo i8 roof windows with integrated shutters look like a smart-home dead end at first glance: the windows speak a proprietary Roto radio protocol, and there's no official Home Assistant integration. Every guide points you at a Mediola gateway as the bridge.

If you own Somfy shutters, you'll quickly discover there are two very different worlds behind the brand: RTS and io-homecontrol. RTS is the old, unencrypted protocol — you can control it with a cheap RF transmitter like an RFXtrx or an ESP32 running ESPSomfy. io is a different story entirely, and every road to an io device runs through an official Somfy gateway.