SwitchBot Curtain 3 - QuietDrift in Home Assistant
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Thanks to SwitchBot for sending me their latest Curtain 3 robots to play with, I'm using them to fix a fault with my teenage daughter who is incapable of opening or closing her bedroom curtains. I'll also show you how to get the new QuietDrift feature working in Home Assistant. Full article and configuration here: www.speaktothegeek.co.uk/2023...
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00:00 Intro
01:29 Overview of SwitchBot Curtain 3
02:20 Installation
05:17 Hub 2, Automations and Matter
05:48 QuietDrift
08:06 Home Assistant and SwitchBot API Config for Curtain 3
12:11 Summary - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Not really a switchbot tip but more for those type of curtains in general. If you spray the pole with WD-40 silicone spray, it makes a huge difference to the ease of opening and closing the curtains.
Thanks - I tried that once in my room and was told to never do it again. It did stink for several days to be fair :)
I’ve used furniture polish on curtain track to make manual open/close easier - not sure if it would affect the rollers on the switchbot though! Definitely smells nicer than WD40
Thanks. Great tutorial!
How do you add the entity at the dashboard in the end?
It's a Tile card, vertical orientation, with an added feature of "Cover open/close"
Interesting. I’d assumed that curtain openers only worked with track and rope, but clearly technology has moved on and poles can now be ‘smart home’d’.
It’s not an outrageously expensive product, but I can see it adds up, £100 per machine with the solar panel, £200 for a pair of curtains, then plus the hub. The mk2 is £13 less if you don’t need the newer features. I’m gonna keep focussing on power management in Home Assistant for now, but good to see how these devices operate
At the moment there's an offer (see video's pinned comment) for 15% off on Amazon in addition to their on offer price. Works out at £168 for two bots and two solar panels. You don't need the hub if you want to connect directly to Home Assistant via Bluetooth (although you do currently need to bodge HA with a mod - Bearded Tinker has a video on that th-cam.com/video/zTBWsLWoTKc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yHBNdcWKfAaB1C1k)
It's a lot cheaper than the £750 piece I was quoted to add this to a ceiling curtain track we had put in a while ago. Still not sure about it mind...
You get very different matter options than I do in the app it only seems to show matter connectivity to Apple devices which without an Apple hub isn’t that helpful
It might be because I'm using the SwitchBot Hub 2 for Matter, not Apple. My setup goes Curtain > Hub 2 > Home Assistant > Apple Home, rather than Curtain > Hub 2 > Apple Home. If you're trying to use Apple for your Matter control then you will of course need an Apple-based home hub (Apple TV / iPad / HomePod, etc) for proper functionality, but that's just one potential control method for Matter.
I was just watching a video on the new features coming in home assistant 2023.10, and there’s a new integration for switchbot you might find useful
I shall go and check that out, thanks for the tip-off
Because u wanted to be at clown while the curtains opened in the quite mode, we were not able to hear if they really make any noise.. Good job!
Honk honk flappy feet big red nose. The only noise you hear is the squeak and clunk of the hoops on the curtain pole, doesn't really get picked up on the microphone so I chose to show the product differently... feel free to carry on scrolling to another reviewer's channel though who has decided to provide you with 2-3 minutes of awkward silence.