Smartthings Motorized Blinds

How to connect our blind and motorized shade systems to the smart things home automation controller system st.

Smartthings motorized blinds.

Fwiw i use alexa through smartthings for my somfy motorized blinds and it works excellent. Overall works well with smartthings using a custom device type. Hello we re looking to start purchasing some blinds and are wanting to motorize them to be compatible with samsung smartthings. The code now supports positioning the blinds not just open and close.

Manage your bali autoview motorized shades and other connected devices with smartthings scenes for good morning goodbye good night and more. Automate your bali autoview motorized shades with smartthings and set it to open or close depending on the time of day when there s activity in your home and much more. You didn t say what country you are in but since you said lutron was a candidate i m going to guess us. I have a bunch of bali blinds motorized with somfy with the z wave module.

Alexa open the blinds alexa close the blinds and alexa turn on tilt blinds all work great. I would do it again and yes it was expensive. Does anyone know what our options would be. The ikea shades are coming out at different times in different countries.

I used a custom designed gear box i printed on my 3d printer to connect the servo to the shaft that controls the window blind angle. The blinds are working great but as of now haven t got the somfy z wave interface to function in smartthings. 12v dc electric tubular motors are used for remote control of window treatment blinds and shades window openers skylight openers drapes and other devices. Shade and blind motors diy are our specialty.

It s my favorite integration to date. I can add the node fine but it doesn t recognize it or provide any functions. This is my first smartthings project. I do not even necessarily need them to do any ifttt but i would love to be able to just tell my alexa to open or close them rather.

They have a remote that s sole purpose is to raise lower open the blinds. Lutron s totally customizable coverings come in either honeycomb or roller styles with over 150 fabric color and. We love hunter douglas which is compatible with alexa but it doesn t look like they d be compatible with smartthings. I had a new house and was getting new blinds anyways probably added 30 35 to the cost but man they are cool.

I would love for me to be able to automate these blinds in some way. I m new to the smart community in general. Serena motorized shades are one of the most popular brands for smart blinds.