I’ve done it and it’s the best! Remote controls next to each set of windows plus voice control through google.

“Hey google, close the blinds” or my morning routine is “Hey google, good morning” which opens the blinds, plays the news headlines, weather and traffic for my morning commute.

It’s also possible to close them when sun sets and open during sunrise, but I don’t bother with that.

I haven’t had to replace any yet and have 12 zigbee temp/humidity sensors which are all battery operated.

You’re spot on. Home assistant and cloudless devices is the only way to build a smarthome, anything else will eventually stop working as cloud services are shutdown.

You might also need to add the additional fan speed options. My testing showed I was missing “diffuse” and “middle”. You can figure it out by seeing what the esp logs show when you set the fan speed of the remote to each level.

You could try doing the same with the horizontal vane, I haven’t tested that yet.