Noel Leeming has a sale on the Aqara Roller Shade Driver E1s at the moment, buy two of them and get the hub for free. Can also combine with the $10 new MyNL account voucher. About a $50 saving overall.
Looking on PriceSpy, its the cheapest for a while, but has come cheaper during boxing day etc.
I've seen these on Aliexpress for much cheaper when I was looking into getting some blinds, but no idea on functionality/quality differences.
can you share what theyre called on there or a link please?
Just searching for "Roller Shade Driver" brings up a bunch of options
We have the 'Moes' branded Zigbee ones for about $70 each.
WiFi versions seem to be a bit cheaper but I have personally had a bad time with WiFi smart home devices.
I have one from ali express, bought for about 50, its pretty good quality have had it for about 8 months without having to recharge the battery. I have the zigby version, I will say that the initial set up was kind of hard, probably due to not much information on the specific model, took me about an hour to get the right boundaries for top and bottom of the blind.
I bought a tuya compatible / smartlife compatible one (~$50) and used it for a couple months
bought a second one from the same place, but then a couple weeks later the original one (profanity) out
motor wouldn't stop spinning without manual intervention so I raised a case through aliexpress
only option to get a full refund was to return the device but shipping back to china would have been more than the cost of the item of course, so got a partial refund
bought this exact bundle when they had it on sale last year and haven't had to do anything since install
automated through homeassistant to open and close at sunrise / sunset
would recommend just splashing out that little bit extra for ease of access / return, aqara app works well too
Hey, Any chance you could link the ones you got? I am looking to get a few (3) and not sure which one to get :D so many options on Alixpress
@Mo11 I think @bagzy is advocating purchasing locally - ie "bought this exact bundle" - rather than off Ali
what @AleBeerenhoff said
can't recommend getting the aliexpress ones as at least one ended up being faulty (stopped using the second one as well but still working AFAIK).
recommend spending the extra for a guaranteed win
I have been using this for the last 2 years, works well. However, only connects to the 2.4GHZ Wifi channel and I struggled to connect this to an Orbi router. Eventually had to use hotspot connection from another phone to get this setup and this is definitely a negative point as I can't control my blinds remotely.
Most IoT devices use 2.4 GHz, Orbi just sucks
strange
i had no issues connecting this to my orbi router but glad you got it sorted
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