zwave motorized blinds

[James Sentman]

OH thats interesting! They have taken a totally different tack on the thing than anyone else I’ve seen. The motor itself actually rides on the track and pushes the curtain along or back! Thats actually quite clever. It seems that nobody can make a motorized device that is significantly cheaper than the $100 price point though which is frustrating. I would need 2 of them for the bedroom and 4 of them for the living room if I wanted to make that happen and it adds up quickly.

I can’t find if it is a blue tooth device like the older switchbot that I built a plugin for? Or something else? Do you need the hub to control it? It does not appear to have an official API or any integration information that I can find in a casual search but if you can find some that would get me further into the thing and further working on a plugin.

If it can connect to the IFTTT site then we can control it probably with just apple scripts running curl or loadURL commands, but it may take some futzing around to get access tokens and such to make that work, I can’t be sure and it would require a working and fast internet connection in order to control something that was next to you ;) Which always drives me crazy. There should be a local way to control it which is probably blue tooth but without any info or any examples of others who have figured out how to do it yet the amount of effort to get that working might be “non-trivial” as they say in my business ;)



> On Jun 15, 2021, at 12:26 PM, Dee Dee Sommers <deesquared at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Switchbot makes some type of curtain/drape controller thing. Have you looked at that? You did write a little code thing for LiveMass a few years ago to control the first little switchbot device. Here is the link to their curtain thing:
> https://www.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-curtain <https://www.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-curtain>
> 
> Oh, and they are offering up to 30% off on Prime day for Amazon Prime people.

Thanks,
 James


James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com




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