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RE: Swish K400 control
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: RE: Swish K400 control
- From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:13:11 +0000
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>
>Having more of a delve here, there's still the potential for getting
the
>curtains caught in an unknown condition...
>
>
My plan to solve this is to integrate a magnetic switch sensor to detect
when the curtains are open/closed. There are "wide gap" sensors
available
on the comfort site designed for garden gates which might blow in the wind
etc. These operate over a much bigger gap than a normal magnetic sensor. I
plan to fix the wired part to the curtain track (or the wall adjacent to
it)
right at the point in the middle where the 2 curtains meet when closed, and
to sew the other half to the inside of one of the curtains.
Curtains close - magnet moves in range - switch opens, and so on...
This will then be wired back to an input to the HA controller.
It'll take a bit of experimentation I'm sure, but if necessary, I have a
super-magnet that I can use in place of the supplied one, if that's not
powerful enough to operate the switch over the distance concerned...
Paul G.
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