Automating Standard Roller Blinds with Hubitat

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I have my curtains automated with 230V motors and Fibaro/Qubino shutter modules. I'm now looking at some roller blinds for a few rooms and can't find much that's suitable (in the UK). I've looked at the Somfy ones but don't want an additional hub or hand held controllers to allow the automation which looks to be RF.

I'm now looking at the retrofit items on amazon that just attach to the bead cord. I can see that they can used with Alexa, Google etc. Can they still be easily added into HE as well - does anyone here have any experience with these? As all of my setup is Z Wave and these appear to use WiFi I wasn't sure. I don't want to add anything to my setup which can't be included in HE automations.

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I can say, that if they can be used with Alexa, then you can automate them with HE.

I just moved my Leviosa shades off of ST and hubconnect using Echo Speaks and and the shades own Alexa skill.

With Echo speaks you can send voice commands directly to Alexa. So I use virtual shades to trigger rules that send the Alexa skill command i.e. "Alexa, ask leviosa to raise living room shade", This then activates the actual shade.

It's a bit convoluted but it is working really well so far.

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Cool - thanks. It sounds doable then. I'll give it a go.