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Originally Posted by Barnes
We built our house in 2018. We have two huge windows in our family room and it being new and me being a home automation nerd we ordered powered Zebra zwave blinds.
They were installed professionally, and I added the blinds to SmartThings, created Alexa routines and brought my wife into the room and said 'Alexa, Open the living room blinds'.
They started to roll up... and blew well past the stop point and tore themselves off the roller and shredded the blind material as they fell.
They have been down, gorilla glued to the roller, and pieced back together with clear packing tape for 7 years.
Last week, I ordered and installed manual replacements making me feel good about ridding the house of the shame and constant reminder of my home automation failure.
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Both ####ing ikea automatic blinds are now ####ing bricked and I'm so god damned ####ing annoyed about it. But not enough to deal with it yet...bedroom just stays dark all day.
So few smart home things have actually paid off in the long run. The daily convenience is nice for a while, but then it ####s itself and you waste way more time troubleshooting.