# Blind recommendations
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/blind-recommendations/28823
**Category:** Hardware
**Created:** [23 June 2020 16:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/blind-recommendations/28823 "2020-06-23T16:28:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Roaders](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Roaders)
#### Post date: [23 June 2020 16:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/blind-recommendations/28823/1 "2020-06-23T16:28:33Z")
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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### Author:  [@Flixm](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Flixm)
#### Post date: [23 June 2020 17:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/blind-recommendations/28823/2 "2020-06-23T17:33:32Z")
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 don´t know about the IKEA stuff in UK i´m from Germany...
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### Author:  [@Roaders](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Roaders)
#### Post date: [23 June 2020 18:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/blind-recommendations/28823/3 "2020-06-23T18:47:49Z")
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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### Author:  [@Flixm](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Flixm)
#### Post date: [25 June 2020 18:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/blind-recommendations/28823/4 "2020-06-25T18:50:37Z")
In Germany they are still availible ... [LINK](https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/fyrtur-verdunklungsrollo-kabellos-batteriebetrieben-grau-90408170/)
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### Author:  [@Flixm](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Flixm)
#### Post date: [25 June 2020 18:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/blind-recommendations/28823/5 "2020-06-25T18:54:53Z")
In my opinion it´s better to set a power cable to each window it´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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### Author:  [@Roaders](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Roaders)
#### Post date: [25 June 2020 19:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/blind-recommendations/28823/6 "2020-06-25T19:04:24Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [24 August 2020 19:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/blind-recommendations/28823/7 "2020-08-24T19:04:25Z")
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