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I have a home with several roller blinds. There are several in various states of repair. This resource looks very handy.

Related: recently, I put up WiFi blind motors on all of them. With HomeKit automations, these now go up at sunrise and go down at sunset.

Has been an unexpected life-changer by bringing in natural light and boosting mood. I'd highly recommend it.



What did you end up going with for motorized blinds? I just bought a new house with a ton of great natural lighting and want to do this without paying an arm and a leg to get it done.


Not the PP, but I used these in my house: https://myiblinds.com/

I used to use the similar ones from Somfy, but they were just too much of a pain in the end. The only thing I don't like about the iBlinds model is that there's no hard-wire communication option (I have 4 conductor wires with power and RS-422 at every window).

I'm surprised there aren't any commonly available blinds that include an internal tilt motor with external manual fallback. Bonus point would be if it also included a lift motor.


I ended up getting WiFi blind chain motors from Aliexpress. This allows me to integrate with the existing blinds that have chains. Also, if I ever need to remove them and go back to manual, it's easy.

There are a ton of these on there. Here is the listing I ordered from: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005461906004.html

I spent ~$40 per blind. They go on sale sometimes.

(not affiliated in any way)


Thanks!




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