They are analog roller shades. I feel like it could be a decent project but my budget isn’t great, so i do want to know if that is something worth DIYing or not. Also I wouldn’t know what micro controller to use.

Any tips?

Edit: also does anyone know of any federated /r/homeautomation equivalent?

  • Prof. Sweetlove@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Look into open source ZigBee bridges for home automation. A colleague of mine currently has a project going, which makes her Raspberry Pi act like a bridge and it talks to other home automation stuff via ZigBee.

    Then you can use stuff like this to control the motor of the curtain.

    Great thing is that you can handle your complete home automation like this, but it might be harder and expensive to setup than just using proprietary bridges and actors.