I just purchased Graywind motorized shades off Amazon. I was able to connect it to SmartThings and set up daily automation off of that. But I need something slightly more advanced. Because I don’t wake up at the same time every day, I want to be able to say “Alexa, open shades at x time.” Right now, Alexa only opens or closes the shade. How can I schedule the opening of my shade with just my voice rather than going into SmartThings nightly?
Schedule? Get a plugin that monitors the azimuth of the sun and then work out the amount of light you want for them to open and close, and plug that into a calculator.
Bam, your shades now open and close year round summer and winter with zero intervention.
Also recommend a window sensor so you can program it not to close or only close to 20% if the window is open.