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1 year 4 months ago #4169 by cjisble
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We are building a new home and I am designing a basement home theater.  I would like to have remote control of the lighting and the window shade.

Rather than buying something and then asking if a driver exists, I thought I would just ask:

What do I need to buy hardware-wise to make it easy to control everything with MyServer?

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1 year 4 months ago #4170 by Nillaz
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In my theater I use Lutron Caseta switches with the Lutron Pro hub. I don't use any motorized shades (yet) but I believe the Lutron driver supports them.

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1 year 4 months ago #4171 by bitzerjd
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You could also use Home Assistant as the middleman.  For example, I kick off scripts (or scenes) that do things like setting lights (multiple, throughout the house, and outside (the deck) to a preset.  I can also easily control the wide variety of crap I have.  The nice thing about this approach is that if Allonis doesn't have the driver, you can still control it.  The downside is that it's another system that needs to be maintained.

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1 year 4 months ago #4172 by David Li
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I too would go with Lutron.

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1 year 4 months ago #4173 by cjisble
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In my theater I use Lutron Caseta switches with the Lutron Pro hub. I don't use any motorized shades (yet) but I believe the Lutron driver supports them.
 
I did a quick web search based on your suggestion.  They offer "Serena Shades" that are compatible.  Not sure how the prices compare with other shade manufacturers, but a quick configuration of a honeycomb blackout shade in the size I need is almost $900.

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1 year 4 months ago #4174 by David Li
Replied by David Li on topic Hardware Recommendation
Yes, Lutron shades are not inexpensive.
But, you can use Lutron lighting switches and XYZ shades.
You can use inexpensive "Z-Wave" shades.
Let myServer control both.
You can create an Automation rule that "If the Lutron switch is turned ON, then raise the Z-Wave blind 50%"
Scenes like that (if applicable but probably not).

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