The latest from Aqara is a small device with which you can remotely control and automate the opening of curtains and blinds that you have at home An intelligent and interesting solution to be even more comfortable at home. so is the Aqara Roller Shade Driver E1.
Aqara makes your curtains and blinds smart
Throughout the week, each of us tends to do a good number of actions that are very repetitive and boring. Most of them are related to the home, although we already have some of them quite well resolved. For example, everything that has to do with cleaning is now more comfortable thanks to robot vacuum cleaners. These, once programmed, allow you to forget about sweeping every day and your house stays cleaner for longer.
However, there are other actions that we also carry out on a daily basis and they are not so easy to solve. Or yes, but there are no options that make it worthwhile to bet on them. One of these actions is open and close curtains, blinds and even blinds. Because in some countries not so much, but here in Spain we tend to put the room in the dark when we go to sleep due to light pollution from outside that could make us not sleep well.
With the exception of the automation of blinds, such as those that normally go in external drawers or embedded in the wall, which require a motor and a more complete installation due to a matter of weight and force necessary to raise and lower them, the truth is that automating curtains or blinds is much simpler.
Currently there are several devices that make blinds smart, but now a new option has been added by one of the most attractive manufacturers in all this home automation: Aqara.
Aqara Roller Shade Driver E1 It is a small device that is easy to install and allows you to control and automate actions on light blinds, curtains and blinds. Everything in a simple way and most importantly: with support for the main home automation platforms.
And it is that, this device for Aqara blinds offers support with the communication standard Zigbee 3.0. This means that it is necessary to have a compatible Zigbee HUB such as the Aqara Hub M2 or Aquara Hub G2H, which offer compatibility for this new version. By the way, the device integrates its own battery that is recharged through a USB C connector.
Control your blinds with voice commands or automate actions
Once you have connected the new Aqara controller for curtains, blinds and blinds, the next step is to take advantage of all its control options. To begin with, there are the basic ones that you can do through your mobile phone and its corresponding application.
Then there is voice control, compatible not only with Alexa and Google Assistant, also with Crab from Apple. That means you can call on any assistant to tell him what you want. And of course, in the same way that you use your voice, you could also take advantage of the routines of each and every one of the platforms.
And if you want to complete the experience even more, you could also resort to using IFTTT if you want something more specific or combine other devices that for some reason you are interested in having more linked to the service than to the home automation platforms themselves.
Price and Availability
The new Aqara Pen controller for blinds, shades and blinds has now been launched on the UK Amazon store. This somewhat limits its acquisition, but it will soon reach Amazon stores in the rest of Europe.
The price of this device should be around 60 Euros, which is not bad considering its versatility, options and that it adapts to different types of people treadmills thanks to the different adapters it integrates. So if you want to automate your home a bit more, stay tuned. Because without being the only option of this type, it is true that due to the proper functioning of the rest of the products, it must be taken into account.