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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?

Get married?

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Tried that. To unreliable.

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

// Erik (binkey.nl)

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.

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

thats a nice "dissappearing" trick

// Erik (binkey.nl)

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!

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)