Smart home blind control - Warema WMS

Hello everyone,

We will soon start building our single-family house and I need your help regarding the automation of the blinds. Initially, we did not plan to include smart home components in the strict sense, but automatic shading is becoming increasingly important to us. At first, we only wanted to be able to control the blinds on the ground floor and upper floor additionally via a central switch per floor. However, the more we thought about it, the fewer scenarios there are in which we really want to control ALL the blinds on the ground floor or upper floor together. So it makes more sense for us to centrally control predefined groups of blinds (e.g., raise the upper floor blinds except the children's room because they sleep longer in the morning). After a while, we also wondered why we should still control our blinds manually when we could shade them depending on the time, twilight, or solar radiation. The blinds should go up when it storms, and I want to create scenes for hot summer days where the blinds do not go up in the morning but the slats tilt,...

I have already thought about scenes I would like to implement, for which I need to access brightness, twilight, wind speed, and time. These must be assignable to individual groups.

My first question is whether you know a good blog or other source that explains rules for this. I find it not so easy to come up with an automation logic that works universally (winter, summer different shading, holidays, vacation,...). Often, blogs only focus on the technology, but not on the logic. As I said, I already have some ideas, but I would like to know how other people have solved the problem. I don’t have to reinvent the wheel. I find the information on the manufacturers’ sites relatively sparse.

The second question would be what is technically feasible for me. Our electrician mentioned the Warema WMS system. This can be easily supplemented via a plug-in adapter that is plugged into the power supply. Thanks to the mesh network, the whole system is fail-safe despite wireless, and the costs are reasonable. Your opinion on this would be important to me, as well as what alternatives might be available.

Best regards Dominik

Maybe read here sometime:

Thanks to you. The following points are still unclear to us.

It is described in the linked article that the wind sensor cannot be linked with slatted blinds, etc. via Tahoma. This must always be connected directly to the motor.

I do not understand this. Does the wind sensor communicate directly with the slatted blinds? Does this mean that I cannot use the wind sensor values for scenes?

What about the range of the wireless connection across floors? I thought the Warema WMS system was well positioned here (mesh network).

How flexible am I with the Somfy Tahoma scenes? When I watch the videos about this, a scene is simply assigned to a time (drag & drop if-then, scenes to time). How flexible am I in combining different variables from the sensors here? Is there also a way to "script" scenes?