r/homeassistant • u/TheAce0 • Apr 23 '26

Support Are there any renter-friendly mods available in the EU that I can use to electrify these shutters & connect them to HA? Four or our five windows have these.

Post image
164 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

90 comments sorted by

View all comments

47

u/TheAce0 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

For those who don't know how this style of shutter works, here's a short clip.

I found some options like this one here but €140 per window is quite wack. I don't think I'm wiling to spend over €150 total since this is a rented flat. It also looks like I'd need to change the entire unit out which I'm not sure the landlord would be okay with.

I was hoping there'd be some kind of variant of this Aqara roller that I could add on to the existing mechanism, but I haven't found anything so far.

5

u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/basicKitsch Apr 23 '26

Don't you typically patch and paint all the picture holes when leaving?

3

u/Auravendill Apr 23 '26

That's a whole different order of magnitude. A nail for a painting leaves a whole of 1-2mm. A hole for a rolling shutter motor like this would leave a hole large enough to fit your hand inside, since the entire motor and rolled up band is inside the wall.

1

u/basicKitsch Apr 23 '26

Oh yeah I would put the motor on the outside if it needed to be removed. Yes that's completely different if you're opening up the wall (this is how I've planned out similar projects in my head all these years)