Blind recommendations

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Hi All

I want to get some node-red (and Google assistant) controlled blinds. Does anyone have any UK recommendations?

I have heard of blinds that last for 6 months on a single charge - that sounds great (but not sure if they have Wifi). I don't want to have to run power to each blind as that is going to make a big mess!

Thanks

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Hi,
maybe the IKEA blinds could be your choice. The battery should work up to 6 month and those are controlled by zigbee.
If you use zigbee2mqtt running on a raspi then you can use the mqtt nodes.

But i donĀ“t know about the IKEA stuff in UK iĀ“m from Germany...

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The IKEA blinds look like they would be great but every link I find for them seems to have been removed from the IKEA website. I wonder if they are no longer doing them.

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In Germany they are still availible ... LINK

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In my opinion itĀ“s better to set a power cable to each window itĀ“s much easier than buy expensive blinds and 5 years later the battery is damaged and a new on is not possible to buy ...
in my case i use a Siemens LOGO 8 which is connected to the blinds and the Siemens PLC is controlled buy NodeRed.

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the link is now working again on the IKEA UK page.
Not sure that's going to work though as they have pretty limited sizes and I need to fit them within a recess.

Thanks for the replies.

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