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Smart-ening Window Blinds (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by synestine@sh.itjust.works to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I've got some decent window blinds at my house (tilt as well as roll-up and -down), but I didn't want to shell out another couple hundred per-window to make them "smart", let alone being tied to a cloud service that could spontaneous combust any day now...

I've done numerous searches, but have not found anything decent that I could use to retrofit to add any sort of automation to these blinds. The best I could find were purpose-built and/or roller shades.

Is anyone here aware of any projects or products that can be added to a set of blinds to locally automate any of their features? I'm running latest stable Home Assistant in a container, with HACS, if that helps.

TIA!

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[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I grabbed one of these and attached to our largest blinds and they work phenomenally. The main issue is cost, but I really just wanted something as a proof of "how" to do it, and hope to come up with a cheaper homebrew later on.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At ~$160 each?

I’ll stick with Switchbot

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Lol agreed, I'm not buying another one. I mainly wanted to get a look* at how because I'm much better at understanding things when i can hold and inspect them.

Edit: I'll add that my main requirement was not needing a new hub to control them, hence this zwave solution 🙂