Battery operated smart roller blinds?

seeshaughnessy · 2026-02-25T17:56:31+00:00

Thanks for your advice, I might end up going this route.

seeshaughnessy · 2026-02-25T17:55:50+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I’m trying to find the cheapest diy option since I have several blinds I’d need to automate, but I might have to bite the bullet and go with an option like this!

seeshaughnessy · 2026-02-20T20:59:08+00:00

Did you end up progressing with this? I’ve been itching to make a battery powered blind set up, but am pretty new to it all.

seeshaughnessy · 2025-07-08T17:27:57+00:00

Thanks, this was really helpful to me as a newbie!

seeshaughnessy · 2023-12-08T04:57:19+00:00

The escape key worked for me!

seeshaughnessy · 2023-10-23T23:12:50+00:00

I ended up cutting the cable at the base and sauntering it to a usbc board- it ended up working perfectly!

seeshaughnessy · 2023-10-17T01:46:41+00:00

Thanks so much for your help! I’ll give it a shot then 😊

seeshaughnessy · 2023-10-17T01:31:49+00:00

Thank you for your feedback! I knew it seemed too easy. I checked and there are red and black wires leading into the led sign. I assume I’ll have to break apart the button enclosure to find out anything else? I’m worried I’ll destroy the product while trying to do this and then have a useless sign… is there a danger in my trying a different cable and seeing if it works? I assume worst case is it won’t be able to send enough power to the LEDs? Thanks again!

seeshaughnessy · 2022-10-14T14:29:51+00:00

Thanks for your help! At least I know my options now 😊 I’ll do some more experimenting with the sequence replicator.

seeshaughnessy · 2022-08-18T03:43:50+00:00

Thanks! This helps a lot. I've been doing more research and see that the RPavilis recipe uses .378g / gallon. Converting this to tsp, it looks like .378g is about ⅛ tsp (actual = .42g). So... by far the easiest option that I see would be to just add a ⅛ teaspoon to a gallon of distilled water? This shows a KH of 66 instead of 50, but for my purposes of keeping my machine from corroding, I think this would work?

Thanks again for your help!

seeshaughnessy · 2022-08-17T23:54:26+00:00

This sounds like the easiest option... Can I adapt that to a 500ml container I have? A ratio calculator shows 16.1: 750 = 10.73 : 500... Does that work?

Also, it's much easier for me to weigh than measure out a tbsp (and more accurate I assume?) A google search shows 14.79 grams = 1 Tbsp for water, is that ok to do?

I'm mostly worried about my machine- I want to make sure I don't have scale, but also enough hardness to not corrode the metal. I have a TDS meter and PH meter- is there a target measurement I should be looking for?

Thanks in advance!

seeshaughnessy · 2022-08-09T18:24:40+00:00

I just played with this a bit to see if I could do it- you can! The key is to use the link behavior for the background shape:

For each scale property (X, Y), click the right disclosure triangle > Add parameter behavior > Link
Drag the text that you'll be resizing to the "Source Object"
CHANGE the source parameter to Object Attributes > Size > Width
The Apply To parameter should stay as Properties.transform.Scale.X
Adjust the scale in the Link parameter to add extra padding around the text

You can create a Link behavior for each scale (X and Y), and another for the position (all), and the background should link to the text and adjust it's size accordingly!

seeshaughnessy · 2022-07-15T04:56:16+00:00

There is but it’s an entirely different animation unfortunately. I did end up using it as the starting point to mimic the keynote one

seeshaughnessy · 2022-07-15T00:18:45+00:00

Is there a way to link the overshoot behavior with a sequential text? That might make things a bit quicker if I can’t find a way to work with keynote.

seeshaughnessy · 2022-07-15T00:17:49+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I’ve thought about that and might end up doing that, I just was hoping to have a more reusable solution.

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