homeassistant

11995 readers

17 users here now

Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk

Automating skylights with blinds to block direct sun (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by sytone@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Looking for a solution on how to determine when to close and open skylight blinds. I can just do hours of the day but would like it to be a bit more intelligent.

Anyone looked at using something like the math used for solar panels? I was thinking that when max solar power was generated in the summer that is when they are closed to keep heat out.

Ideas?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

Additional information regarding Home Assistant:

The sun component (which should be enabled by default) already computes the sun position for you.

Elevation and azimuth are available as standalone sensors sensor.sun_solar_azimuth (might be disabled by default) or as attributes on the sun.sun entity.