HOT 206: Automating Roller Shades & Connecting Printers - Connecting Devices for Automation
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Leo Laporte
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent answers two questions from Kevin: about how to control multiple roller shades with different remotes from a smartphone via Wi-Fi, and connecting a printer that's currently on a power line network to his eero Wi-Fi system.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on hands-on tech, let's take a look at how we can automate and sort of combine control of multiple roller shades in a home. Stay tuned. |
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| 1:26.8 | I've got a question that I'm going to answer. |
| 1:29.6 | A question from one of you. |
| 1:30.9 | This question comes in from Kevin, who writes, |
| 1:33.4 | I have four remotes for four shades. |
| 1:37.5 | Can I use some sort of automation so that I can use my phone via Wi-Fi to talk to these four roller |
| 1:44.0 | shades? Here are the remotes. I do not know if they |
| 1:47.1 | use radio or IR to communicate. So Kevin has included an image showing these remotes. And it looks like |
| 1:54.7 | there's a different kind of remote for a different device. And Kevin had noted that some of them |
| 2:00.7 | are the same. This is a some of them are the same. |
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