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Re:$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener by lm28469 on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:18AM (#44027880)
With a properly designed house your roof overhangs should already take care of that: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5e91c81d669b...

https://www.house-energy.com/images/Overhang.gif

I feel like we design houses like we design cars and many other modern things, form over function and fix the problems by adding a ton of overcomplicated technologies.

If you have huge openings and no overhangs I'd go for something like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPNMp6pMJjk

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Re:$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener by coolcase on Monday May 19, 2025 @06:32AM (#44028284)
SOUTH (or NORTH) is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there!
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Re:$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener by aidenn0 on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:34AM (#44030344)
What about houses with more than one level? The overhangs help not at all on the ground-floor.
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