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What is the best strategy to control curtains and blinds?
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I am planning a new build at present, but am a little confused by the ways Homey offers to achieve window covering control. Can anybody advise me: As I understand it I have a two ways of controlling, but there may be more:
- I can go for a Z-wave option where I embed a Z-wave controller in the wall and use it to control mains operated blinds/curtains. The benefit is that the controllers are stateful, so Homey knows the position of the blind even if it is controlled manually. Homey being position aware seems to be very important
- I can go 433MHz whereby Homey communicates directly with Somfy/Lightwave/KoKo etc. In this case I'm not so sure that the 433 signal is stateful, so Homey will not necessarily know if blinds are open or closed if they are operated manually.
Any insight gratefully received.
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I'm thinking about using Fibaro Roller Shutter 2.
I also have two electric garage doors from NovoFerm that are also using 433 Mhz ...
The only thing that I'm afraid of is the range.
Now I just need to make some flows ...