We have a huge window in our main slide. It's also a pain sliding both the lighter blinds and the heavier blinds up and down. I have decided that when it finally breaks, I'm thinking about installing a powered blind. Has the ability to modify the amount of light by powered slats and also powered raising-lowering. I've been looking at those at home depot, but I'm guessing lowes or others carries something similar. Not cheap... but might be worth the money for ease of use.
Unfortunately that would mean only working on 120vac, however... might be worth a small inverter of it's own... ~100 watt or so.
Just a thought.