Motorising Roman blinds to control them remotely

IKEA do them. I believe they work with Alexa etc.

Which reminds me of yet another whizzo idea from Tomorrows World which never seems to have become commercially available, the liquid Crystal window blind. Brian

You can be forgiven for not noticing that they do exist, but only in Grand Designs land.

Not sure about blinds, but the Boeing 787 and German ICE trains use them for window glass (in the ICE case, the partition behind the driver). So they must be available for non-eyewatering prices, although maybe less eyewatering if you're bashing out thousands of the things to the same design.

WRT the OP, I have a blind motor that looks like this:

I never got around to fixing it for other reasons, but the motor sorta worked OK. The app was flaky, as the apps for these things often are (it does Bluetooth direct from your phone, so depends on your phone cooperating).

I'd have wanted something that could hook into a network and be told when to do things, rather than have a phone running the app in the room, but maybe that takes too much power.

Got it to play with and the need to automate the blinds was not strong enough that it's stayed on the shelf. (would be happy to sell it for say £20 if anyone wants it)

Theo