Zigbee/Z-Wave Curtain Rail for Bay Windows. What are you using?

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We will be moving home in the next couple of months. Currently we have a Silent Gliss curtain pole on a normal straight window that is controlled by a zwave relay. It basically simulates pushing a button.
The place we are looking to move to has a bay window.
I've been doing a bit of research about getting a zigbee/zwave controlled curtain poll/rail for the new place. I've spotted a couple that may be OK but thought it would be good to get recommendations from all you guys that currently have 'smart' curtains.

What make are you using?
What size run are they?
Can they be made to fit a bay window?
Do they work well?
All the usual questions I suppose.
I'm sure you guys and gals out there have some funky setups.

Any info will be gratefully received.

(BTW. This is now a MUST HAVE from my wife who when I first started making our home smart, tolerated what I was doing. Looks like I'm doing something right :wink: )

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Using Zemismart Zwave rails here, one of which is a bay window. Had them a good few years now and almost zero issues. In fact if I’ve had any issues it’s never been the fault of the units. I highly recommend them :+1:

And they’re all over 2m in length.

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Thanks @Royski
Big ask I know as you have had them a while but any idea what model etc.
I will have a look and see what I can come up with.
Thanks again

EDIT. Would it be this one? Just talking about the rail in general not ZB as opposed to ZW.
I'm assuming the motor gets concealed behind the curtains.

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Yeah they look very similar. I bought them directly from Zemismart as they also had the angles for the bay. These are mine.

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I have no idea how that photo is going to look lol. Just took it right now. The dangly bit is hidden by the curtain and that’s the zwave module and an aerial. Hope this helps. :+1:

Update. Checking their website I can’t find the angled sections they used to do and also no zwave option any longer. So looks like they’ve updated.

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Thanks @Royski looks like I have a good option with these.
I'll get them of Amazon I think. It seems they still do bay window 'angles' so these could do the job.
Plus I can always send them back. :slight_smile:

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Ah nice! I didn’t see the bends. Found one site which actually did bendy tracks, but was WiFi and very little info and went cheap at all.

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I've had motorising one of our bay window's curtains at the back of my mind for a while, so this thread caught my eye. The Amazon UK page linked above seems a little...incomplete - it lists various configurations in the description, but only has the one ordering option, so rather than chance that I checked the Zemismart site to hopefully get a more specific offer.

There, it looks like you can order a straight track of various lengths from here:

...and if you need them order angle sections separately from here:

What is doesn't say is how many 135° sections you get per item ordered...edit: heard back from Zemismart, and you get a single section per item.

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I've been using M-Systems kit for a few years in the UK - unfortunately the website seems to be down so they may have gone belly up. I'm using the track to which is attached a 230V Dooya 52S motor. I've done mine this way so that full manual control is maintained even without a Z network. The motor is attached to a Qubino Z-Wave Flush Shutter module and I've wired a retractable switch into that for local control at the wall switch. The Dooya motors and track are available on AliExpress if I remember correctly.

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