You’re welcome :D

As a German I can say those are pretty terrible pretzels - the good ones are way more fluffy in the bottom half and thin and crisp at the twisted parts

I just found a workaround - not sure why it works, I found out via trial and error, but I’m currently reporting to Eve support.

It seems the blinds cannot complete setup via Home Assistant and OTBR and get stuck in a state where they are successfully paired with HA but do not expose any controls (yet). In order to get the controls to show up, it seems to be necessary to complete some more setup steps via the Eve iOS app.

What worked for me is the following:

1. Pair the blinds with HA using Matter/OTBR
2. Generate a matter code via the Matter integration so the blinds can be added to another hub
3. Add the blinds via the newly generated code to an Apple Home hub, e.g. an Apple TV or Home Pod. The device does not need to support Thread as this is still handled by your Home Assistant. If you are exposing your devices to Apple Home via the Apple Home integration, you should see the same blinds twice, this is intended (one comes from the integration and the other one is connected directly to the Apple Home hub)
4. The Eve app should now be able to discover the blinds and offer you to complete setup
5. The blinds should now expose their respective controls in HA
6. You may now remove the duplicate blinds from your Apple Home hub (not the one paired via HA)

Hope this helps!

Cheers

Thanks again for the detailed explanation, I think there might indeed be some confusion on my side as I’m fairly new to the ecosystem.

There is also a way to pair devices with the HomeKit integration, and not directly through the Thread border router.

I’ll definitely try this when I’m home, I didn’t know you could pair devices via the HomeKit integration too. And yes, currently my blinds are connected via the Matter integration and the Thread Border Router/ZBT-1.

Thanks, I didn’t know exposing controls was another thing for itself. The integration requires the blinds to be used with a bridge, however I was always able to use the blinds without one directly over Thread. What I don’t get is why the controls have been working in Apple Home but don’t in HA.