Velux Blinds Control
The main use-case I wanted to realize, was to get waken up in the morning by the sun-light.
Therefore I somehow had to smartify my VELUX blinds and found that the best way was to buy a new “KLI 313” (310, 311 and 312 are pretty much the same) remote control and solder an ESP8266 to it.
I first tried to find the same remote as I already have, but apparently these are not produced anymore. Except of the form, they seem to be very similar.
After pairing the remote with the blinds according to the manual, the soldering can begin.
ESPHome and Home Assistant take care of the rest in terms of automation. I even found a perfect ESPHome configuration on GitHub:
https://github.com/mrflobow/velux_remote/blob/master/velux_remote.yml
On mrflobow’s GitHub page there are also instructions and a link for 3d printing a housing of the older version of the remote.
I also like to attach a DHT22 temperature and humidity sensor to an ESP so, it serves more than one purpose 😅
 – platform: dht
   pin: D0
   model: DHT22
   temperature:
     name: “Parent Bed Room Temperature”
   humidity:
     name: “Parent Bed Room Humidity”
   update_interval: 60s
Then we get these nice controls:
Finally this is my simple automation yaml file:
alias: Open Covers in the morning
description: ”
trigger:
 – platform: time
   at: ‘6:30’
condition:
 – condition: and
   conditions:
     – condition: time
       weekday:
         – mon
         – tue
         – wed
         – thu
         – fri
action:
 – device_id: ###your_device###
   domain: cover
   entity_id: cover.velux_remote
   type: open
mode: single