Thanks for Sharing! I have been studying up on this and have seen a post from Melair, but havn't seen his actual blog.
Pretty sure im going to go for this solution as well. Now we need to find a way to get the battery level showing.
can you post a picture of how the tile shows up on the dashboard?
EDIT: You can try installing the driver for SmartWings Shades and see if the functionality is the same and if battery level is presented.