Intelligent bedroom curtains

A couple of months ago, electric curtain rails where on sale from my favourite Z-Wave supplier.
Ordered them, installed them and made them work with Indigo using a Z-Wave module.
But do I really want to close the windows using a remote control? Nope!

Indigo knows when it gets dark, so there's a nice trigger that fires when that time off day has come.
And the curtains will close automagically.
But wait, there's more!

If the bedroom window is open, the curtains will remain open, because the open window blocks the curtains.
Thanks to an alarm sensor that send the open/close status to Indigo.

And when the window is closed and it's dark, the curtains will close after ten seconds.

For obvious reasons Indigo will not open the curtains when the sun rises...

I long to automate my blinds and curtains, but the motors just seem so expensive!

Have you the make/model of the curtain rails?

Sure. Have a look at this site: http://www.kallox.com/english/k_productview.asp?id=18

I bought them at the RobbShop. They cost EUR 175 .
See this link http://www.robbshop.nl/z-wave-curtain-s ... -6-14m-357
It also has details on connecting them to a Fibaro module.

update: there was an error in the link to the RobbShop

I use Somfy RTS wire free motors for the venetian blinds and tracks i got in from China with Fibaro Roller Shutter 2 for the curtains at back of the house.

Thanks both.

Macpro, I misread your first post, thinking that you'd found some ZWave curtain tracks.

I'm already looking at Somfy as I'm familiar with it both at RTS and Comms level as we use some professional automation at work to run 4 sets of 4 blinds each.

I did a post here on how to automate a Silent Gliss 5090 curtain rail using a Fibaro FGS-221 Double Relay. I have since enhanced it slightly to use the Fibaro S1 and S2 switches as well and have dispensed with the need for a script by using a virtual device.

Yes, I'm subscribed to that thread.

Macpro, is that how you did it?

No. I didn't know that thread existed.

The physical connection is very easy and explained on the page from the RobbShop I referred to in an earlier post.
Just live and neutral to power the Fibaro 2 * 1,5 KW module and then 3 wires from the curtain motor. No resistors needed.

I configured the Fibaro module to act as a pulse switch by setting the "Relay 1 auto-off delay" to 2 and the "Relay 2 auto-off delay" to 2. That's done because the curtain motor just needs a short pulse to start opening or closing. It gets it's power from a separate power supply. Not from/via the Fibaro module.

So Indigo has two devices for 1 curtain: 1 device to turn the device on and 1 device to turn the device off.
I created a virtual on/off device to combine these two devices into 1 so I can open the curtains by turning that device "on" and close the curtains by turning the device "off".

The rest is all standard Indigo stuff with triggers, schedules and action groups to control when to open and close the curtains.

I'm getting a page not found error in Dutch on that link?

Think it might be: http://www.robbshop.nl/z-wave-gordijn-s ... 14-6-14mtr

That's the link. But it works for me when I click it in my post.
Strange...

De opgevraagde pagina bestaat niet. Hiervoor zijn een paar oorzaken mogelijk.
Als u zelf de URL heeft ingetypt, controleer dan aub de spelling.
Als u via een link bent gekomen kan het zijn dat deze verandert is.
Wat nu te doen?
Vrees niet, hulp is nabij! Er zijn vele manieren om terug te gaan naar de ROBBshop.
Ga terug naar de vorige pagina.
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Vanwege het overgaan naar een nieuwe site kan het helaas zo zijn dat uw bookmarks niet meer naar de juiste pagina verwijzen. Onze excuses hiervoor.

I can actually read and understand dutch !!

Give me French and I'd have a crack at it. My German is limited to 10-15 words. Dutch = 0!