Automating my curtains "invisible"

Post by **Digit** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:31 am

Every time i close the curtains, i'm thinking of how to do this automated. But everything i can think of, will just make the view of the curtain rails look worse. I do not want an extra rail to pull the curtains open or closed, or something like that. The solution has to be virtually invisible. Any ideas?

Post by **Snelvuur** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:00 pm

Get married?

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **Digit** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:07 pm

Tried that. To unreliable.

Post by **Snelvuur** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:12 pm

myabe change the curtain rails itself, and place something behind the curtain. bwired has electric curtains too.

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **Bwired** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:26 pm

This is very hard to accomplish without seeing it. Is the setting in the book of Heino a possibility? Still you have to mount the little motor!
The only thing you can do is guess when its dark give a voice command telling your wife in nice way to close the curtains

I will post a photo with my setting.

Post by **Bwired** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:27 pm

This is my setting, very handy for hiding electronic stuff.

Post by **Snelvuur** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:13 pm

thats a nice "dissappearing" trick

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **Digit** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:04 pm

First response i got on Pieter's picture was: "that's not gonna happen"[:)]
Additional problem is that the mount to the ceiling you see at the right side in my picture, is not in the middle. So i need to control each curtain separate, cause 1 has to travel 2,5 m. and the other 3,0 m. Hadn't thought of the setup mentioned in Heino's book. I'll look into that. 2 small motors near the ends should not be a problem though.
Thanx!

Post by **Bwired** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:13 pm

Right that could solve your problem....
I had that ceiling long before my electrical curtains otherwise a lot of work!
Next week I gonna place electrical curtains on the backside of my home (6 meters)