I've done quite a bit of searching and i'm not coming up with much in the way of what people have done to control mini blinds. I've found tons of stuff on roll up blinds, but i'm looking for something to control tilt on some 2" wood blinds (Venetian style):
I dont really care about rolling them up and down, but would like to be able to have HS3 open the tilt on them to a mid point at certain times of the day or shut them based on room temperature/ etc...
I came across this somfy product: Tilt Motor, which looks like it will get the job done. And i see there is a hs3 plugin for the somfy URTSI-II module which should talk RTS to the above motor, but i only see roller blinds listed in the plugin description and not sure if it will send commands like 50% open instead of just up/ down like a roller blind.
Has anyone implemented this plugin and somfy control module with tilting blinds? between the URTSI-II module (seems to be about $350ish), plugin ($30), the shade module motors ($120), battery tube or hardwiring a PSU ($40), there is quite a bit of startup cost to that scenario, but scales back quickly once you add more shades. Still though, its a bit more than i want to pull the trigger on without some assurance that someone has tried these and they all play nice together.
I've also seen some hacked together stuff with arduino and servo motors on the web, but i'd rather have something a little more "for the purpose" to drop in the head rails instead of having to fab something to fit.
What are other people doing for shade control of these types of blinds, or is everyone else just doing roller blinds?
I dont really care about rolling them up and down, but would like to be able to have HS3 open the tilt on them to a mid point at certain times of the day or shut them based on room temperature/ etc...
I came across this somfy product: Tilt Motor, which looks like it will get the job done. And i see there is a hs3 plugin for the somfy URTSI-II module which should talk RTS to the above motor, but i only see roller blinds listed in the plugin description and not sure if it will send commands like 50% open instead of just up/ down like a roller blind.
Has anyone implemented this plugin and somfy control module with tilting blinds? between the URTSI-II module (seems to be about $350ish), plugin ($30), the shade module motors ($120), battery tube or hardwiring a PSU ($40), there is quite a bit of startup cost to that scenario, but scales back quickly once you add more shades. Still though, its a bit more than i want to pull the trigger on without some assurance that someone has tried these and they all play nice together.
I've also seen some hacked together stuff with arduino and servo motors on the web, but i'd rather have something a little more "for the purpose" to drop in the head rails instead of having to fab something to fit.
What are other people doing for shade control of these types of blinds, or is everyone else just doing roller blinds?
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