For a new home build we are looking to install some HunterDouglas motorized blinds.
From reading their website it appears that they offer an IFTTT Channel for their automated blinds. They also offer several home control plugins but none seem to be related to HomeSeer. So I think we will need to leverage IFTTT.
Is there any way to use IFTTT without a live internet connection? I was hoping it would be something you can set up via the IFTTT site and then be isolated but it sounds like HS would have to send any commands out to the internet to the IFTTT servers, then those turn around and send the command back to my house where the controller at the blind picks it up and executes on it.
Personally this seems pretty stupid way to just motorize some blinds. We are not going to have a great internet connection where we are moving to and am actively working to be sure I have no runtime dependencies to the outside world for any of my HS and security configuration. I have never looked at IFTTT until this past week when I was looking at blind controls so I'm trying to catch up here.
advTHANKSance!
-Lawrence
From reading their website it appears that they offer an IFTTT Channel for their automated blinds. They also offer several home control plugins but none seem to be related to HomeSeer. So I think we will need to leverage IFTTT.
Is there any way to use IFTTT without a live internet connection? I was hoping it would be something you can set up via the IFTTT site and then be isolated but it sounds like HS would have to send any commands out to the internet to the IFTTT servers, then those turn around and send the command back to my house where the controller at the blind picks it up and executes on it.
Personally this seems pretty stupid way to just motorize some blinds. We are not going to have a great internet connection where we are moving to and am actively working to be sure I have no runtime dependencies to the outside world for any of my HS and security configuration. I have never looked at IFTTT until this past week when I was looking at blind controls so I'm trying to catch up here.
advTHANKSance!
-Lawrence
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