Motorizing Blinds

I'm a strong believer that home automation should make life more enjoyable and that it's not just about having some "cool" new gadget. I actually enjoy the more obscure and transparent automation devices. Take a look at this picture and you'll notice a lack of anything technical. It’s just the simplicity of a set of blinds, operated by a remote and an autonomous schedule.

Typically, a person will go into a room and open the blinds every morning. Then at night they'll go around closing all the blinds. I always found this task tedious and ultimately my blinds tend to stay closed.

With a set of automated blinds, I was able to program the automation system to open the blinds in the morning and close the blinds at dusk. It's really nice not to have to go around the house to open and close the blinds.

Installation was pretty easy. I followed two videos from YouTube (Video1 Video2).