Congrats on 400 bro Edit: You might change buttons logic so the curtain extends/retrieves to its extent considering you have their positions stored. So we don't need to hold the button for the whole 20 seconds.
I really enjoyed this project Andrei. From time to time in an Arduino group I see people searching for motorized curtains. I imagine this could be adapted to controlling curtains of different sizes. You did a fantastic job! For some reason the video description that shows up for me is the coin selector you did previously. Maybe it's just a RU-vid glitch? Thanks for sharing!
A genius idea 👏🏻👏🏻 I also want to be a youtuber im more into arduino and wireless projects this will really help me with my messed up room. thanks a lot
Nice project. I have been experimenting with automating my blinds myself. I wonder why you didn't use a motor with gears that would allow you to disconnect the motor from the power supply. A good reduction ratio or even a worm gear would've been enough to hold the curtains in place without the coils being energized
This is amazing. Maybe swap the arduino and bluetooth module with an esp32 so it could be controlled over WiFi. Then have it listen for api calls from either a stream deck or similar device. This might be overkill but using nylon lock nuts would reduce the chances or anything coming loose overtime.
Nice project. I wonder if there is a way to make it more power efficient. The power supply hat to be always on for this to work. This an issue I also have at home. So far I have no good solution
It depends. If you want to keep the motor at a certain position you need to engange the motor to use the holding torque. In this case this is especially important as the second wood pole is alwys drawing downward. But you can use some gear mechnism, friction or a solonoid to get around this. Still the Arduino and the blue tooth always drawing power. Wouldn't it be nice to have an ESP32 in deep sleep, that checks evere 10s or so of the user wants to activate the motor mechanism via the app.that than activates the power? It is a bit complicated but overall it should save a lot of power.
@@electricalychalanged4911 I have a Tuya Wifi blind (I anticipate selling the house with this one in place) that is battery powered. Haven’t opened it up as there is no obvious way, but the wifi module is separate. I assume the wifi module and blind module talk using a proprietary low energy protocol. That is how I imagine they solved that part of the power problem. Not sure how the motor works but it has upper and lower limits (even if no blind is attached) and the speed is so constant it can’t be a simple motor. At the very least there is a speed feedback loop and a timer.
I've just done something similar for my vertical blinds using 28BYJ-48 5v geared stepper motors and a nodemcu controlled by alexa. I tried a nema 17 but it was too noisy and bulky. The current setup is only about the size of the nema on it's own.
Interesting project. Isn't stepper motor enough here? Do you still need the gear? Also, if you are using Arduino Nano, can't you just use software stepper driver instead of physical one? Nano has plenty of memory for that.
bonjour et encore merci pour t'es tutoriels excellent comme d’habitude, existe t'il un moyen pour avoir un 49E Hall supplémentaire pour avoir aussi un arrêt moteur en butée haute et rendre le tout automatique. hello and thank you again for your excellent tutorials as usual, is there a way to have an additional 49E Hall to also have an engine stop at the top stop and make everything automatic.
I wonder if it could be made smaller also I am waiting on some ESP-01's from aliexpress for another project , to add wifi to my roomba by using a code to make it emulate a belkin wemo , I wonder if you could use the arduino to make 2 presets for the stepper motor , figure out how many turns to raise it and how many turns to lower it and then have one pin for triggering each setting , and then connect the esp-01 output trigger pins to those input trigger pins , so you can have one press up and one press down and control it with Alexa/Google home , I am not sure if the code I am going to use supports emulating 2 separate belkin wemo devices or if it can be added so that it can emulate 2 devices and use 2 pins though maybe it could be set up in an arduino sketch so that turning on = shade up and turning off = shade down for the stepper the project for the ESP-01 and the roomba is called "Roomba voice control with Alexa and Belkin-Wemo emulator"
hi, really loved your projects. i actually have one question on my mind regarding this project which is is it possible to use a smart home system such as google home to control this?
i see i see, cause i happen to have a blind just like that. would be a real shock to my parents after they saw i turned their room blinds into a smart home blind hahaha
Interesting project. I have been wanting to make a green screen and this sounds like a good way to do it. Will you PLEASE tell me WHY you have bananas in your videos????????????????
Is this an scamming, spoofing site you made -- electronoobs, which periodically opens another tab with ads if clicked anywhere on the page? And it shows fake notification permission popup. You have ads all over the pages, still are you not satisfied! That's good that you spend time to share your knowledge and skill, but at the same time, i don't know what kind of educated engineering mind it is to make a site like this!
i wanna do the same thing but for pergola which will be horizantal not vertical as urs, so which motor/mechanism should i use? i want to pull the sun-shade via motor. Watch this video and u will understand what im talking about. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nNphVmJ9sos.html
