I have a number of outdoor blinds which are motor controlled and can be controlled manually via home assistant.
However, I have two things I want for automation:
Have them automatically go down when sun is shining through that particular window. This means I cannot do a general check for sunny wheather as we have these blinds on different sides of our house.
Wind sensors to prevent the blinds from going down, as well as automatically go up, in windy wheather as that can otherwise break the blinds.
Anyone done something similar?
For devices, since each blind already has electrical power by cable I do not require wireless devices. Connection should be via either WiFi or ZigBee (as a fallback z-wave).
Wow, that looks awesome. It would actually solve the sun part without having to add any sensors. It still does not solve if a window is already partly blocked by larger trees etc. but I think that is okay. This will still actually be a per window setting which is what I want.
However, the second part of incorporating wind has to be solved.
I guess from the automatic blinds blueprint perspective goes, as long as I get wind data for each window (not each window per se but the windows are located at three different sides of the house so the wind varies greatly) I can trigger the wind as a “manual override” in the blinds blueprint.
Still need to get that wind data though.
Have you got wind bearing as part of your weather data? That might be enough to experiment with initially, then if you need real-time data you could think about some sort of weather station.
On the light thing, my motion sensors all have lux sensors - don’t know how common that is.