Generic shutter open/close module

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I have a Makita CM101 drapery module. I recently found a deal on an aux IR receiver for the controller, which has four wires and plugs into the “timer” port of the motor controller. It responds to open, close, and stop commands from the handheld remote. I already have an IR eye mounted to the drapery module which also responds to the remote, but there’s currently no Z-wave integration.

I want to find a Z-wave module that will issue open and close commands… which I expect will just be contact closures, but they have to be linked so you can’t close both simultaneously. My intention is just to snip off the IR eye and wire up a Z-wave module to the four wires (it’s an RJ-something, the size of a coiled phone receiver plug). There’s 120V available for the Z-wave module. Any ideas?

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Take a look at this thread. It seems there are a couple ways to do what you are looking to do. My first thought was to use one of the Globalcache Wifi or Ethernet to IR devices. Then I found this thread which covered exactly what you were looking to do.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,30174.msg215006.html#msg215006

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[quote=“slief, post:2, topic:187144”]Take a look at this thread. It seems there are a couple ways to do what you are looking to do. My first thought was to use one of the Globalcache Wifi or Ethernet to IR devices. Then I found this thread which covered exactly what you were looking to do.
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,30174.msg215006.html#msg215006[/quote]
Ahh, right. I posted in that thread. I’m not looking to use IR. I’ll pursue that dry contact module idea… thanks.

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We went over this before, we offer a Z-Wave to dry contact module with open/stop/close contacts for motors but I don’t think the Makita has dry contact inputs. info@zwavemotors.com

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This is the device I purchased last week. It has no power supply, just an IR receiver on a board, with four wires connected. I haven’t dismantled it to see what it does yet or to read voltages, but I tend to think this is a dry contact input. If a $70 module will do what I need it to do, I’ll buy one. I don’t mind being a guinea pig, but I also don’t want to shell out $70 for something I can’t use. The device linked above was $10.