@RogerPhillips-yn8cf Great question. All of the shades have the motor and wire at the top left of the shade so if you are doing outside mount you could come 3" above the frame around where the top of the shade will be. The should allow you to then connect the wire and hide it. I haven't done this type but let me if you need measurements to help.
I had a wired Serena shade over my patio sliding door. It worked flawlessly though I sold that house. The shades are HomeKit enabled, the wood shutters are not. Over time the shades need to be wiped off with a damp rag to clean them off and keep them operating silently. I had a HomeKit automation to open the blind at sunrise and close them at sunset. The blind has quite a bit of wire. You purchase the wall plug that clicks into the wire from the shade. Your electrician could probably shorten the length. Brett has taken it to the next level using the in wall power packs. It looks truly awesome! Serena even called after a while to get my opinion, which I told them we loved the shade. My only recommendation would be to make the wire shorter coming from the shade. Then have the option to buy the AC plug with longer or shorter length depending on what you need. I wish Serena would make a electric plantation shutter.
Working on a new home now, looking to run conduit to prep for motorized shades at some time in the future. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you for taking the time to put this together :)
Brett, this is a fantastic video. Man, I'm so happy for you and your family that you are in that new house. It looks absolutely gorgeous, bud. That must have been SO satisfying the first time you opened and closed those. Oh man. Hope you are doing extremely well, my man. Adios.
thanks for the detailed video. the only thing is that the electrician made a code violation - you can't run unshielded and exposed Romex 110V wire on the wall, it's against the electrical code. High-voltage wire has to be shielded.
Very cool and well planned. I bought Hunter Douglas silhouettes in our house because Lutron didn’t support our wider windows in the house. Cost a pretty penny but latest generation of PowerView works pretty well.
Some people say that if you have legal access to a copy of the material, keeping another copy on your NAS is okay, like SCOTUS. VHS and DVD wear out, so if you backup it format shift under fair use, you would be at the mercy of streaming.
That is nuts, I was caught up on the fact that they think no one can do their own electrical work anymore. Wow, he even had the electrician do the 12v side.
They look great! We've got the battery versions in our house, they've lasted almost 4 years so far, but we'd probably do wired when we build our next home. How's the rest of the house coming along?
Correct me if I am wrong, but are these shades powered by low voltage and then controlled over wireless? Do you know of any systems that also do control over low voltage?
Yes that is correct. The wire just provides the power and then the motors run on the RF Clear Connect system and that is how they connect to the hub. Doing my research I did hear about others running a Cat cable to each window that provided POE and the ethernet connection but I am not sure what system uses that.
Great question. The Smart Hub just need to be plugged into the wireless router wherever that is located. The wires from the power panel just proved power. The shade is what sends and receive the clear connect signal that connects to the hub. In my case it is just on the other side of the room from the power panel.
Actually none of it uses Wifi. "Instead, it plugs right into your router and speaks to all of your Caséta devices using Clear Connect®, Lutron’s patented wireless technology. Clear Connect works on a different frequency so it’s not dependent on the speed of your Wi-Fi network." www.casetawireless.com/us/en/caseta-advantage/smart-hub-advantage
Correct, no wifi. Not infrared either. The control is via radio frequency (RF). "Clear Connect" is just their marketing term for RF, and it's at 868 MHz, limited 868 MHz, or 865 MHz FM.
8:00 Requiring a licensed electrician is ridiculous and i hope it is not something that they enforce, just something that they recommend to limit liability
Say it is 20 windows x $500 per each window. Yes, $10k is a good chunk of money but very small to a new house build that might be $500k-$1M+. Pretty easy to justify in that context, especially considering that part of having a new custom home is the all the small luxuries you can put in to have a nice place. These things will work for decades to come.
3:45 you like that they treat you like a child? When you go to add it to your cart, a page could just add a disclaimer and even a quiz to make sure you read it, there is NO REASON that you need to call them if they have their site properly designed.
