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$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (2024)
[<< | Prev | Index | Next | >>] Thursday, July 18, 2024 $30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener In the spirit of my thermostat and dishwasher controller, I managed to cobble together a decent blinds opener in a short weekend almost entirely from spare parts on hand. This design is very much what I could do quickly with what I had, so probably not worth copying, but perhaps it can be an inspiration.
In the spirit of my thermostat and dishwasher controller, I managed to cobble together a decent blinds opener in a short weekend almost entirely from spare parts on hand. I connected the motor to the blinds wand with some surgical tubing (and some other random flexy tubing I had to pad the motor shaft up a bit) which mostly worked (and helps maintain vibration isolation for noise), but it's not quite strong enough to really cinch the blinds tight at the end so I wrapped a few turns of silicone tape over that and then some blue tape just to cover up the sticky. So now I just send a target percent-open to my blinds on my HA network (or push the open or close button I added to my phone panel), and there they go.
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