Automate Your Window Blinds: EASY!

Automating window blinds can be easy! I'll show you the 4 different smart solutions automating my shades and blinds, so you can find the best one for your home.

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0:00 Intro
0:15 Sunsa Smart Wand
1:40 Switchbot Curtain
2:53 IKEA Fyrtur
4:30 Lutron Serena
6:32 Magic wand

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MUSIC

The End by EVA

[reidb]

Never thought about motorizing my blinds til I saw that retrofit wand. Now I'm inspired.

[burprobrox]

Now every room in your house has a different brand of smart blind. Thanks for making the sacrifice! Most of my house has horizontal blinds, so that first wand thing is perfect. edit: OMG it’s so damn expensive!

[jameelkhalfan]

Lutron uses standard D batteries, and you can buy rechargeable ones from anywhere. This is better, in my opinion, than the proprietary IKEA batteries since who knows if IKEA will still be making those batteries a couple years from now.

[mattfiedler]

Another option I found was the Soma Tilt, a good retro fit option. You do have a motor to stick to the wall but personally it doesn’t look terrible. The can be a little glitchy but I think it is a hub issue. Controlling over Bluetooth is easy and routines are pretty reliable. Nice video!

[darrenpryke]

I have Lutron blinds, they are amazing, nearly silent. I went for battery so as not to have ugly cables running to power sockets. I'm amazed, with multiple automations a day, the batteries last over a year. Great choice.

[davidkennedy]

I've had the blinds on my DIY list forever. Glad to see good options are coming out, maybe by the time I actually get to it, I can just do off the shelf.

[bagrubmeister]

Love your videos! I just installed my SmartWings blinds and they are amazing they are custom fit and made to order and the price is perfect. A lot of fabric choices. It only took 2 weeks to get them too. I highly recommend you taking a look at them. I got 2 32x46 and 1 65x64 for $850 delivered. They work with all the assistants. I am very pleased with them. I think it is worth you checking them out!

[derrianhollingsworth]

They didn't wanna make it too easy...to stay on brand! 🤣🤣🤣

[besnikmaloku]

A cool thing with the IKEA Fyrtyr is that you can cut them to a custom widht, so for instance if your window is 110cm wide, you can purchase the 140cm Fyrtyr and cut it to your specific widht, that way you dont have a gap and no light comes in.
Furthermore they are very good at blocking the sun out, i have had mines for over a year totally satisfied.

[AlexTeo]

Just covered the somfy and soma smart shades solution, absolutely good options as well!

[Shadow__X]

We already have an Ikea hub and I have a smart ceiling light, so an Ikea shade is probably the best choice, although I like the wand because light level can be adjusted over the whole area of the window

[ronm]

Nice! Thanks Reed. Better find that magic wand if you want the shades to go back up. 😃

[djsylvester]

Thank you for saving me a poop load of money on my hub. I’m going with Aeotec instead of SmartThings hub. Same hardware..lol. I wanted to pull out my Raspberry PI (I’m OG tech), but my wife vetoed the idea with a passion. I need more direction with the E-Wand for the blinds. Now I have to buy a pack of them and don’t want to spend that type of money.

[cghrios]

So glad I found your video. The down side I’m looking for levolor, Bali, select blinds. But so far u have had the best review of any video I have found. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[KairosGaming]

I'm currently in the process of building a new house & I've been watching your channel a LOT for info & inspiration on how to make my home "smart". I wanted to say thanks for all your help! I just followed you on Twitter. You can DM me there if you ever want to talk about YouTube 👍

[CamoPajamies]

Just god bless everything you care about, you mean for it -to be able to care for you back and forever. As it should, good homie helping others best ya can.

[koreypaul]

Gonna be a must as I'm going to be working the night shift and be a daysleeper 😴

[samus]

I’m going Lutron for my lighting, which will be switches instead of individual smart lights. In all of my research they seem to be much more reliable than any other brand and cheaper than Hue lights. I’ll stick with their ecosystem, HomeKit compatibility is a big plus, I think that will be great for resale value.

[tomjones]

The IKEA blinds and their buttons have a battery drain problem if they are used with any other Hub than the IKEA one... and the IKEA one does not let you use the buttons for anything other than the blinds. IKEA has no plans to fix this. Buyer beware...

[ThatBeardedVeteran]

You can always add some trim around the windows to help block the last bit of light that IKEA blinds still let through.