# Cheapest smart curtains?
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759
**Category:** Devices
**Created:** [August 28, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759 "2018-08-28T19:08:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@vaderag](https://community.homey.app/u/vaderag)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/21 "2018-08-30T08:58:42Z")
One additional question - I see the Xiaomi controller appears to come with bare wired ends - does this need to go to a transformer or safe to wire directly into UK 240v supply (probably on a spur to be safe I guess, or plug with fuse)
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### Author:  [@Eternity](https://community.homey.app/u/Eternity)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/22 "2018-08-30T09:02:31Z")
AC 230V directly in my case.
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### Author:  [@Domotica-blog.nl](https://community.homey.app/u/Domotica-blog.nl)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/23 "2018-08-30T10:42:15Z")
Have a look here: [https://www.domotica-blog.nl/post/automatiseren-gordijnen](https://www.domotica-blog.nl/post/automatiseren-gordijnen)
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 5:52am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/24 "2018-09-01T05:52:34Z")
Hi Vaderag, I hope you are as bad as I of your answers.
The answers you got tells me that this people are completely
high, If I ask for a cheep solution so shall I have it!
So, I will give you a solution, it is a Swedish firm, and I will think
you have to pay 250 dollars. And for that price you will get ten
units, so one unit will cost you 25 dollars.
I have wonder what people answer here, maybe they don´t know
anything about electric and electronic stuff.
Here is the name of the Swedish company:
TEPTRON
Best regards
Bjorn
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 6:01am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/25 "2018-09-01T06:01:18Z")
Haha, I think some fool said something about that your expensive curtains
need expensive stuff, what a shit talk, you will do best google for the stuff you want,
and the most you can order from China to a much lower cost than in EU.
I have Homey, and I like it, but before I used X10 and the windows program for the
modules, it could do this if, then, else too so this thing with modern smart home is maybe
thirty years old.
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### Author:  [@Eternity](https://community.homey.app/u/Eternity)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 8:46am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/26 "2018-09-01T08:46:24Z")
High @Bjorn_Bark (pun intended)
The solution Teptron offers is known by Homey users. It is not made to control curtains. The question asked in this thread is about curtains, not blinds.
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### Author:  [@vaderag](https://community.homey.app/u/vaderag)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/27 "2018-09-01T09:06:37Z")
In this thread I was asking about curtains. I do need blind automation too however - will that work with plain string blinds? And with Homey?
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### Author:  [@PHB](https://community.homey.app/u/PHB)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 9:26am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/28 "2018-09-01T09:26:34Z")
Hallo Vaderag,
You can take a look here [www.teptron.com](http://www.teptron.com). There is no Homey app yet.
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/29 "2018-09-01T14:46:20Z")
If you are a smart hommaker, you know as well as I that you have
to use your head, your imagination? As I said so have I 30 lamp and
apliancemodules with x10 protocol, and with that software I have done
exactly the same things as I do now with Homey, for curtains or blinds you
only need a motor where you can put a rope, I often wonder why you make
everything more complicated than it is?
Ok, I use 4 Teptron for blinds, it works for me, thank you.
Best regards to you all out there
Bjorn
Ps, I have ir- sensors, house alarm, Door switches from x10 too.
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### Author:  [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/30 "2018-09-01T14:55:34Z")
@Bjorn_Bark I’m not sure why you respond in this way; please keep it respectful.
We’re here to help each other.
If you have different ideas or suggestions, they are more then welcome, but again brought in a respectful way.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/31 "2018-09-01T15:30:45Z")
Send them a mail
Regards Bjorn
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/32 "2018-09-01T15:41:01Z")
Ok, I am an engineer, maybe I think different, I don´t know.
But if you need something that should drag a curtain up or down, or
blinds from left to right? It is the same thing, or am I missing something here?
Yes, some modifications you have to do.
Sorry, but when a man ask for a cheap solution and got answer for that with costs
about 500 to 700 dollars?
I am going to shut my mouth down.
just wanted to help, but I know about forums, instead of helping people, they often
will tell them otherwise.
Best regards
Bjorn
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### Author:  [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/33 "2018-09-01T16:17:25Z")
As mentioned, I am / we are interested in any possible solutions we might not have thought about…
The only thing I am asking, is to do it in a respectful way; so not calling someone with a different suggestion a fool…
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### Author:  [@Eternity](https://community.homey.app/u/Eternity)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/34 "2018-09-01T16:26:33Z")
> [@Bjorn\_Bark](#):
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> I am going to shut my mouth down.
That is not needed. Please feel free to share your suggestions and ideas. Just be gentle in the way you phrase them. People might offer other solutions. That does not make them ‘fools’ or ‘high’.
I myself had a cheaper solution to open my curtains and now have a more expensive one. The price was less of an issue.
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/35 "2018-09-02T09:49:03Z")
Sorry, you have absolutely right, my mistake.
Love you all.
Bjorn
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/36 "2018-09-02T09:52:40Z")
Yes Ernst, I am very sorry.
I will stay to facts.
Once again, sorry.
Best regards Bjorn
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### Author:  [@Erik\_M\_Madsen](https://community.homey.app/u/Erik_M_Madsen)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/37 "2018-09-02T12:56:36Z")
Now when you mention Teptron and are so happy for them, why dosen’t you make an app for Homey?
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/38 "2018-09-02T23:29:36Z")
haha, not so very fond of Teptron, but they are inexpensive.
Regards Bjorn.
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/39 "2018-09-02T23:33:11Z")
And that it has Z-wave is a plus.
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### Author:  [@Bjorn\_Bark](https://community.homey.app/u/Bjorn_Bark)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/cheapest-smart-curtains/759/40 "2018-09-02T23:44:30Z")
A nice and cheap alternative is to us a electric screwdriver, the one you can get
ten dollars, they are strong enough but you have to lower the voltage a bit if
it is noisy, I use this idea in my homecar for the beds so I can lift up the headend
when sitting there and reading or surfing after more skit on the market.
I use a trapets bar with nut for milling machines, the nut fasten in bed and
the trapets bar on a nearly 90 degrees angelgear and then the strong screwdriver.
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