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well got a Harmony that will work with some of the HA gear that is out, supposedly there are adapters to change from RF to IR so that they can be used with Harmony remotes as well. Ill have to wait and see.
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Got a response back from the vendor:
Hello,
The only drape blinds controllers that we have are from Add-A-Motor. They only have two different models, one for drapes only and another for pull-chain blinds only.
http://www.smarthomeusa.com/Shop/Home-Garden/Drapery-Controllers/
If you have two pull chains, one for rotate and another one for open/close you can use two Add-A-Motors at the same time and control both operations from one butler remote.
http://www.smarthomeusa.com/Shop/Home-Garden/Drapery-Controllers/Item/800DR/
http://www.smarthomeusa.com/Shop/Home-Garden/Drapery-Controllers/Item/1361/
We do not have one product that does both operations at once.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Looks like I was right and there is not a readily available controller for what I need. I'm glad I dont have those blinds in the new condo now!
If I do get blinds I will either have to DIY the controller/motors or have seperate motors for each portion.
On to the other issues now!
Thanks SSS, I knew that somebody HAD to make them..
One other problem I have thought of when I was going through and listing what I would like to do is, I cant use dimmers with the CFL I have.
I was looking at having a controller set to automatically turn the lights on to 50% if it detected movement.
Oh well back to the drawing board.
Cant have anything in the common areas of the building.
I will probably have it in place of the peephole though.
There are creative ways to deal with that, I had the same problem, so I put a very small camera in a tree with a Li ion battery pack (Its very small, one inch thick x 5" long x 3" wide, this is wired to a very small solar cell. I also used almost an entire can of liquid electrical tape to weather proof it all.
You could look at the tree all day long and not see it, and even if you did, unless you have a ladder or you're a squirrel, reaching it isn't easy. This camera monitors the side of my building, specifically my home office window, the same window they broke and tried to gain entry to my home (WITH ME INSIDE MY HOME OFFICE)
Some great ideas there, have you got any pics yet?
Linux MCE is the likely candidate (its free), I just need to burn it and test install it on a rig.