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You are making assumption I want to wake up that early.

Quite opposite - I’m searching for way to completely black out the room since kids will wake up with slightest shred of light, far before daycare starts. And I’m not even living if far lats.

But yeah I still want them for convenience. Problem is I don’t want cables dangling around curtains and battery options are limited.



This comment makes no sense. You choose when you want your automated blinds to open, if you don't want to wake up early, just don't set them to open early?


This comment also makes no sense... they said completely black out a room, which blinds alone cannot do.


Yes they can, the thing you're looking for is literally called black-out blinds. Installed properly, they don't let any light in even when it's high noon outside.


I was not referring to specialized black-out blinds, just regular blinds.


Blinds bolted on to the window frame can't, but blinds integrated into the window frame definitely can.


I just hard wire mine by going through the cornice with a flush conduit. It's a good place to put the manual shutoff switch as well.


Batteries last more than a year and you can get ones with solar panels to recharge them.




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