Curtain automation

[alqassam]

We have a mix of rail and eyelet curtains.

I'm redoing the TV room and 1 wall has a lot of windows. I want take out the eyelet curtains and install rails with some nice blackout curtains. I want to automate the curtains.

Which motors and controllers are recommended?

 

[agentrfr]

How tech inclined are you?

I'd probably just host an mqtt server with a pi and subscribe a bunch of arduinos to relevant topics. You could lora but wifi usually works fine for this sort of thing

Then you could just use appropriate motors for each blind - much cheaper this way

 

[alqassam]

How tech inclined are you?

I'd probably just host an mqtt server with a pi and subscribe a bunch of arduinos to relevant topics. You could lora but wifi usually works fine for this sort of thing

Then you could just use appropriate motors for each blind - much cheaper this way

Which motors would be suitable?
I can integrate in HA easily enough

 

[Rocket-Boy]

Smart Curtain Blind Motor | Tuya Smart Home

Smart Curtain or Blind Chain Motor will make your existing chain operated curtains or blinds super Smart. Chain or Rope with small beads.

tuya-smarthome.co.za

You could go with Tuya, there are also ones that come with a rail etc.
I have seen quite a nice one that is pretty much just a "crawler" that attaches to the rail near the ends, it rolls back and forth on the rail and pulls the curtain with it.
I cant recall what that one was called though.

 

[Dylan_G]

/subb'd

 

[hilton]

Sonoff recently came out with a device just for this. Can't remember the model number though.

 

[Ma’bad]

see the second product in this video

 

[DuncThePunk]

I’m using Switchbot curtains on 3 sets of curtains and they work beautifully as long as your curtain rails are nice and smooth. I did have to change the wheels that came with them to bigger ones for my rails (U-Rail) but they’re amazing, and automated curtains are super cool.

I‘m using a Pi Zero to send BTLE to them so I can control them in Home Assistant via MQTT since they are too far away for my HA box to communicate with them directly using the native integration.