Hi,
I am using home-assistant for my homeautomation for a while now. One of the first things i wanted to automate was the automatic control of the blinds. I first tried to solve the automation directly with the scripting possibilities in home-assistant but at some point the effort was quite hight and i could not realise my automation demand easily. I then search for ready to use modules but could not find anyone. So i search for other possiblities to create automations with home-assistant and found the appdaemon project.
With appdaemon i recreated my blind automation and created a module that can be easily used by everyone.
Here a list of the main features:
- Blinds are automatically detected and an example configuration is created to include into your home-assistant configuration
- Each blind can be configured differently
- Blinds can be controlled accroding to sunset or based an defined time
- When using sunset/sunrise times, an earliest time to open blinds and a latest time to close blinds can be configured
- Blinds can be automaticly opened during night to cool down the house
- Presence detection can be used to disable automated blinds control if somebody is home
So just check out my githup repository https://github.com/foxcris/appdaemon-blinds-control and i hope this module will help you setup your blind automation quickly and easy.
If you need help with the integration in your home-assistant instance do not hesitate to ask.