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re: Official WINK HUB Home Automation thread
Posted on 11/20/17 at 2:09 pm to CarRamrod
Posted on 11/20/17 at 2:09 pm to CarRamrod
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Well all I have to add is i'm still WAITING on the damn zwave motors to ship (see latest update above).
I did run across a problem, however: my wife loves to leave those french doors open (above the scary goblin in that photo) and we get all kinds of flying bugs in the house.
The issue is if I automate those blinds, because its a VERY VERY SUN HEAVY area in the afternoon, all the bugs hang out on the windows on the inside...and...wait for it....on the shades.
If I automate the closing and opening of the shades I stand a really good chance that I'm going to roll up a bug in them and get squashed bug juice all over them.
In fact this has already happened once when my wife rolled the shades up without checking. It cleaned up pretty well but now I'm seriously having second thoughts that within a couple of months (particularly the summer) I'm going to end up with a bunch of squashed bug guts all over my shades.
Its less of a problem when rolling them down than rolling them up because they roll down in the late afternoon and don't trap bugs. The real issue comes when you automatically roll them up later when the bugs have gone to sleep on the backs of the shades between the shades & the window.
Anyone have automated shades and encounter this problem?
Its something that never occurred to me until after I put the shades in.
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This post was edited on 11/20/17 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 11/20/17 at 7:21 pm to CAD703X
So a year later and that post is still the best option for cheap "smart blinds"?
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