Homekit blinds reddit Hello! I'm interested in purchasing smart blinds for my apartment. The MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) is offered by the AAMC and is a required exam for admission to medical schools in the USA and Canada. They just told me to reset the shades and then reconnect them to HomeKit without actually providing a solution as to why they keep getting disconnected from HomeKit or showing as “no response”. Anyone having a good experience with any homekit compatible blinds? There's Soma Smart Shades with an optional Soma Connect module. After much digging, found one sentence buried in an FAQ stating as much. They are a great price, and with the tradfri hub, work great with homekit, google and Alexa. If all else fails, another option is to get windows with shades in the windows. Aug 15, 2023 · The best HomeKit smart blinds offer full support for Apple's smart home platform, while also coming in a variety of styles. Tilting would be a bonus feature if that's possible. The wood blinds aren’t HomeKit supported Reply reply This is the Reddit community for EV owners and enthusiasts. However, there is a little beam in the middle. Still have more sensors and stuff that I need to buy but adding them slowly for budgetary reasons. The new ZemiSmart Roller shade motor uses Matter over WiFi, and is therefore compatible with HomeKit, and all other platforms. I got smart wings, but got the zigbee version instead of he native HomeKit. The HomeKit versions currently use Bluetooth for connection. During the summer, it kept the blind at 100% never dipping until late October (I live in western Canada). I have a solar panel attached to one of the blinds as a test. smartblinds. They most certainly come in the sizes that you are looking for. As for the house sitters, get a Hue Dimmer switch, Wemo scene controller or any other controller that works with HomeKit. I finally figured out that I had to add the blinds by going under 'lighting" along with all the lights bulbs. I’ve had a better experience so far but did have one of the blinds require a hard reset. Also lets me set up automations and use my voice to control the blind. I’ve been testing out these blinds for only a short time, but I’ve been impressed by pretty much all the things you want from a set of smart blinds; quiet operation 13 votes, 32 comments. I think for a smaller window you'd probably be fine with a decent battery powered shade motor. 7m drop and are 3. I installed about a dozen SmartWings Thread-enabled (native HomeKit) blinds a few months ago. What you cannot see in the pics is that the sheer part is always there. Two of the four blinds had significant problems when adding to HomeKit using the Eve app (which is necessary for setting top, bottom and favourite positions for the blinds). In a new home and needing blinds/shades/something for my bedroom because I like to sleep in total darkness so I thought I might as well go for some smart blinds. Enter Hubitat Elevation Hub, Yoolax easily paired to their online tool, I enabled HomeKit beta compatibility and Voila all blinds were added into my 'Home' App. I have vertical blinds installed in many of my house’s windows and would love to find a cheaper option to make some accessible/automatable with HomeKit rather than replacing them entirely with a set of HomeKit compatible blinds. You can manually adjust the blinds with a controls on the actual device unlike Soma. IKEA blinds are pretty cheap/plasticy so it might be best that they don’t work for you. Dumb, but it’s a start. In Australia they are sold by Luxaflex. There's also a HACS integration that works just as well, and is also local-only. Now in January , it’s at 71%. My ultimate goal is to control the blinds using HomeKit/Siri, Home Assistant (HA), and Node-RED. I now want to either replace my existing blinds with smart blinds, or possibly make my current blinds smart-enabled using something like Soma. Due to the blinds being removed from HomeKit, any scenes that had the blinds were also removed. I have Somfy with io motors (not RTS). Easy to pair with the hub, easy to get the hub in HomeKit, and easy to pair the remote to the hub so you still have a physical control. I love the blinds, but am at my wits end with HomeKit. all of that said, these thread blinds look very compelling, still cheaper than serena and appear to be just as nice. Apple Isn’t forcing you to have your blinds at 49% but that’s basically half open which is a pretty common choice for setting blinds anyway. I had to remove the tilter from the blinds when I inserted the SwitchBot Tilt, otherwise the tilter would fight with the SwitchBot Tilt and cause it to jam. I have a couple Apple TV 4Ks and 2 HomePod minis. Bali blinds I purchased had an option for wireless remote control using Z-wave, I went with that. Once connected to HomeKit, I then generated a pairing code for each and added to Home Assistant. 24 votes, 16 comments. I’m considering changing all the roller shades in my home (7ft height by 5 1/2 width) before I pull the plug and buy 12 blinds I want to make sure at least for the master bedroom that the Serena shades or the hunter dougls have a morning function or are quiet enough so I don’t hear them going up while Anyone have issues with SmartWings Matter enabled blinds? I just got mine on the Black Friday sale (5 of them). The matter thing would be nice but isn't going to affect anything for me. Shades/rollers prevent me from doing that so I was just curious if I had many (or any) options for smart blinds that are HomeKit enabled? Anybody know if any of the IKEA remotes (TRÅDFRI dimmer remote or SYMFONISK sound remote) are now showing up in HomeKit now? I'm able to see, and modify the functions of my Philips Dimmer Remote and my Philips Tap Switch. Both connected fine, and showed up there. To be fair, the two clips I was sent were taken on an iPhone, which tends to increase the overall sounds it picks up. The blinds work great with the Home app and Siri understands commands like "open the blinds 50%". So be sure to never use your remote controls again, unless prepared to "synchronize" them manually. SmartWings is also coming out with a next-gen Thread model, currently on Indiegogo , to compete with Eve. To borrow an analogy, Homekit is like a compact car, you need a truck. They stock Bali Roman shades, and according to Bali's tech support, those aren't either. The companies I have contacted for pricing in my area want a minimum $250 per window to motorize them and then another additional cost for each one I want controlled Wire everything and enjoy the motorized blinds Optional, create an automation and drive the blinds via a aqara switch Budget: 16 eur sonoff 30 eur motor (if you don’t have one already ) 15 eur aqara switch Ps: I inserted the closeups of aqara switch and sonoff. When this happened, the blinds would be re-added to the same room that the hub was in. A faucet, smoke/co2 detectors, ceiling fans, lights. Velux Active has Homekit support for io motors. The documentation and support from Ikea is HORRIBLE. Lots of light leak. I like my blinds, they work well with the remote. They’re okay. I'm looking for raising and lowering faux wood blinds, not honeycomb shades, mesh shades, etc. Nice writeup. I have Bofu blinds with solar, they use 433MHz. Very roundabout way, but works well, other than the aeotec hub wonking out every few days needing a power cycle. Homekit has zero support and zero way to diagnose problems. My worry is that the amount of pull required to adjust the angle is actually not that much, plus there’s the adjustment parameters - you can pull from closed to open to closed, with the blinds rotating through 180° - I don’t think there’s a control in Homekit for, say, open blinds to the left or right, just open or closed. Not sure about the blinds but got the matter hub today and they work pretty well so far. And the hub was unreachable despite having an IP address. It’s solid, a little loud but it’s worked well so far. /r/MCAT is a place for MCAT practice, questions, discussion, advice, social networking, news, study tips and more. I went with the Bali Autoview since was about half the cost of native homekit blinds like Serena and Hunter Douglas. The window is S/E facing. For reference, house is a single-story ~2k ft 2 with my router and all associated hubs in my small living room, which is in the center-ish of my house. I purchased 6 Yoolax Smart Blinds from Amazon about 3 months ago, they are Zigbee Compatible and support Alexa/Google Home. Ah, homekit is essential to my home set up so I got their hub, AFAIK its the only homekit/zigbee hub. If interested make sure you look into powered versions if new build or Hi! I'm planning on installing Ikea's Motorized Smart Blinds in my home soon. Initially, a few went days without responding. Curious if the OP ran into a similar issue when installing. That sucks. I believe the remote talks to the blind via Bluetooth and the phone app talks to the remote via Bluetooth… Do they make HomeKit compatible blinds as opposed to shades/rollers? I’ve always had blinds and so I’ve been used to them and like to peek out the window from time to time. Only problem was they came with a smaller tube than I needed for the motors. I have 7 blinds with HomeKit motors and I've been having tons of issues with blinds no longer recognized or responding in HomeKit. – a HomeKit user with 20 Shelly relays integrated into HomeKit The blinds are just the latest. Unfortunately, the width of my screen door/window is a little long, about 70 inches. it’s always about one centimeter of difference. . Posted by u/DevelopmentLonely956 - 1 vote and 2 comments I wrote a somewhat long blog post review of the Smartwings Matter/Thread roller shades and zebra blinds. The ones I can compare it to would be the new Omnia blinds, Aqara T1C, and Xiaoyan, all of which seem to be a lot quieter. Two connected quite easily by holding the button until it jogs the blind twice, then adding in HomeKit by scanning the matter QR code. Coop from Eve and Coulisse. If you open the blinds with HomeKit and then close them with remote controller, HomeKit believes that they are still open, and since it's a toggle, your next HomeKit-command will do nothing. Then all you have to do is click on the scene you want and bingo. They've been very hit or miss when responding to Home app requests. You can set the buttons to put the blinds to specific locations. But, I do see the full open/close requests that work and they show as coming from HomeKit. 171K subscribers in the HomeKit community. More recently I converted the 2 largest to hard-wired power supplies and the other 21 to rechargeable battery wands because they were chewing through AA alkalines 12 at a clip and costing me $25 a month for replacement batteries. Lutron Serena and Sivoia Triathlon QS blinds are Homekit compatible. 9% effective. Used an aeotec hub to bridge into SmartThings, and use homebridge to integrate with HomeKit. Dutch company, so don’t know about shipping abroad. I have had 23 PowerView blinds, which I installed myself, for 4 to 5 years. Join us on discord… I know the guy that’s been testing this since May. One motor operates the string, which opens and closes the blinds and the other operates the chain, which adjusts the tilt angle of vertical slats. Use vertical blinds. They also don’t support commands to go to a %age level open. I can use BroadLink to control them, but bridging to Homebridge is a pain. I found Hunter Douglas and 3 Day Blinds both claiming to have Homekit compatibility. the hub loses connection with the ikea app and the home app frequently, requiring a reboot of the hub, so no HomeKit and automations I hope it is fixed with a new hub, and becomes more responsive with the new standards. Only the cellular model of the Bali blinds are loud. I think it's a Thread issue. Daily use of the blinds has been great. Join us on discord: bit. I bought a Velux Active getaway from eBay, around £70, and works flawlessly. you can combine or merge the two blinds into one; go into the settings in the Home app for one of the blinds and select “group with other accessories” and select the other blind you want to merge it with. That is until today I just noticed the wood blinds in my home app. 167K subscribers in the HomeKit community. Had some challenges getting the blinds and the hub paired buy that may be location of the hub/blinds. Savant is truck. Smartwings are definitely officially compatible with HomeKit, but you have to make sure you order the right ones, as there are three options, with Apple HomeKit being one of the three. I, however, and many others in this subreddit would likely argue that because they can be integrated using solid third party firmware or Homebridge that they are HomeKit friendly. I’ve not had any issues with the blinds and After an iOS update in November 2021, somewhere between 5:00 and 5:10 pm every night, the blinds would be removed from HomeKit and re-added. I haven't been able to track down a document defining the interval which it uses to check device state yet, but some third party projects indicate that homekit polls slowly most of the time, a minimum 30 minute interval was implied. It super easy to shorten the IKEA FYRTUR blinds. Adding a "basic" motor that is even remotely quiet and a wifi controller, not to mention that we still need a power supply/battery solution, does not leave much room to be "competitive" and I have 6 ikea smart blinds and I love them. 7m wide. I believe they work with home assistant as well, but I have not tried that yet. I live in the UK and I agree, for the price and the ease of installation (pairing to the gateway isn’t as straight forward but easy enough once you know how) and the batteries last for ages Got the motors for $105 a pop and the blinds were $450 from select blinds. After 45 minutes, they finally confirmed that their smart hub is not HomeKit compatible. One negative issue I ran into is that I couldn’t get the blinds to close as tight as I could with the traditional method. Two connected after a couple of tries, but went non responsive within hours. I can second the Tilt MySmartBlinds motors. com) about 6 months ago. Does anyone know if HomeKit compatibility is on the horizon? Update: Feb 2022: as a couple of you have indicated the blinds appear in The hub would keep dropping the blinds on HomeKit after I would repeatedly set them up. Plan on getting a cheap zigbee/homekit button to put on my nightstand. 401 votes, 72 comments. The only lacklustre part of the integration is that there isn’t any vane control in HomeKit, but if your scenes have vane adjustments then it works just fine. We have remote controlled blinds and ceiling fans that we currently bridge into Homekit with Bond Bridges and Homebridge. I couldn’t justify the $800 per window for Lutron Serena x20 ($16,000 for blinds for the whole house), so I’m testing out the IKEA PRAKTLYSING blinds and they have been excellent so far. Homekit is awesome, but its just not good enough for that kind of scale. Yes, the Homekit integration works with the Pulse 2 Hub, and I don't think there are any missing features. I got the HomeKit motors before Matter but they now have Matter over Thread and they will let you purchase just the motors to upgrade existing blinds without having to buy all new shades. Has anyone doubled up these blinds to fit over one window? Would love to see some pictures if anyone has done so. 6 shades are in the big living room, which are furthest-ish from the hubs, 3 in my kitchen, which are next to the small living room, and one in the formal dining room, which is next to the kitchen. Can’t wait for native support for HomeKit and solar. I have 11 interior blinds and for large outdoor blinds. The only thing I chose not to implement was the HomeKit shower controllers because it seemed like a waste I purchased 2 of the HomeKit compatible roller blinds in September. It’s a hassle to sort through. The blinds themselves are fine but HomeKit often struggles or is really slow to interact with them. They had a better discount at the time. You can use a battery to run it or a hard wire it appears. Once paired they respond yo Siri quickly. The only thing I don’t like is the % up/down is the full blind length. I just got off of the phone with Smartwings and ordered new Thread motors for my blinds. Our install has been flawless, not a single failure in nearly 2 years. The motor should be strong for any type of roller blind with beaded or regular cord. I am researching smart roller blinds solutions for HomeKit. I have a slide to retrofit curtains, they are adding HomeKit support in the next two months. I have them set up to automatically go down in the evening, and up in the morning. They have different motors whether you want them to be compatible with Zigbee, HomeKit, Smartthings, etc. Apr 11, 2024 · use the following search parameters to narrow your results: subreddit:subreddit find submissions in "subreddit" author:username find submissions by "username" site:example. Private in protest to Reddit’s handling of API rules. Maybe whoever you were talking to was confusing the supposed 5-year warranty with the 365 no questions asked return policy. In total, I specced up 6 roller blinds, and so far have installed four of them (the other two have a tricky mounting location, so haven't got around to it yet). Been two years with the Lutron blinds and have had no issues. I got a bond and slapped it into HomeKit via HomeBridge. Switchbot has I converted my window blinds to smart blinds with some stepper motors and ESP8266. Each does include a stand-alone remote and signal repeater. The measurement is for the metal frame, and the actual shade is a a bit under two inches narrower (I've got two 34" units, and I'm currently in the process of getting new blinds or roller shades for my house and I would very much like them to be controlled through HomeKit or at the very least, Google Home. Lutron motors (and their Caseta lightswitches) can be integrated into Homekit with an extra hub, I use Somfy motors all around my house and then control them with the Bond Bridge which integrates into homekit via homebridge. The Eve HomeKit blinds use Thread for connectivity and require a Apple Home hub with Thread Border Router support — namely HomePod Mini or Apple TV 4k 2021 or 2022 w/Ethernet. This also means there’s no longer a requirement for using the Tuya app, as has historically been the case. Everything that isn’t natively supported by HomeKit is done so via the relevant homebridge plugin (except PS5), and all works well. They work fine. Yes. I think you can only merge/group devices of the same type, so you can’t merge a blind with a smart bulb, for example. I'm using mine through my Vera Z-wave controller (homebridge-vera), and they work extremely well with homekit. The simplest and plainest roller blinds of a standard size similar to what was portrayed in the video that I can get at a local blind store start at $150. The problem is it should meet specific criteria like your blinds tube diameter should be 37-55mm (ikea doesn't fit). Our outdoor blinds have a 2. For example, the Soma ones have a solar charger included, and if you add them to HomeKit via Homebridge instead of buying the stupid Soma Connect (which is literally just running a specialised version of Homebridge anyway) then the solar panel is exposed as a light sensor, so you could technically close the blinds when the light level reaches a 187K subscribers in the HomeKit community. Just wrapped up nearly a 4 month remodel on the house. No issues, battery is still at like 60%. My house is around 1500sq ft and I have two Apple TVs and two HomePod Minis spread out evenly along with Unifi APs in every room. So you can open, close, and tilt the “slats”, but when you have it closed and tilt you are looking through the sheer material. Hi all, I currently have a soma smart blinds 2 for the master bedroom blind and is loud. I recently moved house and bought a full set of ikea blinds and their gateway to make them HomeKit compatible. Any experience with either one? Or others? They are whisper quite, work perfectly in unison (via Lutron pico or app but not perfectly alligned via HomeKit group), & the fabric / hardware are high end. and they start at about half the price of these new blinds. Unfortunately, I could never get them to connect via any of my current Zigbee Hubs. So, I'll be swapping out the HomeKit motors for Thread when they arrive and hopefully it will have a more stable connection. My advice is to shop around, get several quotes, negotiate, & pay the premium. I have 13 of these blinds purchased through American Blinds (sister company to Blinds. I have PowerView by hunter Douglas. Ordered the tubes and mounting hardware for an extra $50z so All in all 3 blinds for about $800 They’re HomeKit compatible - any automation that HomeKit can do will work with the blinds. I like the upgrade kit idea that can make your old blinds smart. com. However, this post is excellent if you're already invested in Levelor's motorized blinds. Check Luxaflex, they announced Homekit compatibility not a long time ago and they are available in the UK. They work super well and batteries last so long. I've had them a little over a year. Yes, the blinds require the IKEA Gateway hub. HomeKit makes it interesting: if you want it Partway open with stripes overlapping, you have to say hey Siri, set-blinds to 45% or 55%. Feels a little bait-and-switchy honestly. All the scenes show up in HomeKit, and you just keep HomeKit/the PowerView app in sync. They were like $150 each, for the price I’m not sure if there is a better Create some scenes which are pre-sets to the different lengths you would actually like your blinds to be. Sorry you’re having an issue, but I still stand by these blinds as some of the best HomeKit blinds available. My question is which of the flows will be more reliable/performant? Blinds > Ikea Hub > HomeKit > HA Blinds > Zigbee2MQTT > HA > HomeKit Blinds > Ikea Hub > HA > HomeKit The gateway (hub) is not included, but required for Homekit. Unless budget is your primary concern there’s several new players in the smart blinds market so you don’t need to spend crazy lutron money to get smart blinds anymore. I ended up purchasing remotes for each room since HomeKit is so unreliable. I'm using an ATV 4K with ethernet connection as the hub. I ordered the blinds exactly as instructed on the site, and while the frame fits, I’m disappointed with the amount of margin on the edges of the blinds. The #1 social media platform for MCAT advice. I don't mind the noise. I have the roller shades as well that are supported but for some reason the blinds didn’t have support. io/ If I look at the logbook for the blinds, I never see any event for the partial request. Just installed my first Serena Wood Blinds. I’ve had the ikea blackout blinds for about a year. Join and Discuss evolving technology, new But the instructions on doing a full reset of the blind worked first time, and I was able to add it into HomeKit. I previously had the blinds connected to HomeKit via natter without HA in between. These blinds do appear on eBay with some regularity, and I've bought complete blinds there for as cheap as $75/blind (though on average, we paid around $150 for each blind in this project) The good news? Apologies if this has been asked already, but I have been unable to find an answer anywhere. I have the ones with the 6 button remote. These also come with a repeater to ensure a good connection (typically you’d only plug in 1 per room where you have blinds, not 1 per blind), and they also come with a physical up/down switch you can stick or screw onto the wall. We also have Smartwings, the Shangri-La blinds that do have the tilt. I removed some Eve Thread Outlets that seemed to be the problem, which helped. The blinds are actually Z-Wave compatible and the hub they are selling (which I bought - probably shouldn’t have) is a Ezlo model 100 Z-Wave hub. So it's a little Do they natively support HomeKit? Of course not. It will have HomeKit out the box but will require a hub and use Alexa and Google as well. The only drawback is that while using HomeKit automation you never get the same percentage of full opened blinds. Here's a look at our favorites. Check it out: Smartwings Thread/Matter Blinds Review Can’t speak to the blinds themselves (literally can’t find anything identifying on my blinds) but my apartment has blinds controlled by RF remotes. but wanting to assign custom scenes to one of the more compact IKEA remotes. They are Bluetooth, however, and not WiFi. I think you are only ever going to be using HomeKit then it shouldn’t make much difference between HomeKit over Thread or Matter over Thread, although if you’re not in a massive hurry, the latter is more future proof to an extent, as you just don’t know where Matter might be able to take things down the line. I cover installation, setup, documentation, firmware issues, and more. Lets me be divorced from interacting with any outside servers. I have an older version of these and it works well, however the old Soma Connect was Raspberry PI-based and worked with HomeKit (it basically ran a customized version of HomeBridge). I have 10 of the Fyrtur blinds /rollers. They work great. My neighbor got their roller shades (same Z-wave control) and they're nearly silent. If you can’t get the options you desire in HomeKit compatible smart shade makers like Lutron Serena, you may be able to get shades from another manufacturer and use a HomeKit compatible smart shade adapter like Soma Smart Shades. Using 40 or 50% gives you partway open and stripes not overlapping. Instantly solved my need for blinds in HomeKit https://bondhome. They will also open and close together. I use homekit b/c savant would be wasted on a small home like my own and if something doesnt work I dont really care. They did the firmware upgrade yesterday and so far so good—HomeKit automations are working again. You have to group the blinds in the switch bot app before integrating them into HomeKit via Matter. Every so often the hub will miss an automation trigger, but I would say the bridge, HomeBridge and blinds motor are like 99. I’ve been searching and can’t any press releases/updates saying they added support. Homekit tracks device state, on or off, open/closed etc. I've recently had 1 that is draining battery faster than the others which are still I just ordered a native Homekit enabled roller blinds from www. To get them into Apple Home: -Aeon Z-Wave usb stick inserted into Synology DS918+ that is running a virtual machine instance of Home Assistant OmniaBlinds Smart Blinds are (I believe) the first company to release HomeKit compatible blinds using Thread technology, with the help of Coulisse and Eve of course. I have four in my living room blinds. I was wondering if, because it has an IR blaster, I could replace the Bond Bridges with Aqara M3 hubs, and have the fans and blinds appear in Home The select blinds site feels kinda skeezy-but they are the exclusive retailer in the us for these blinds. Once they are grouped together within the SwitchBot app and added into HomeKit, they will appear as 1 Window Blind, but that one blind will control the whole group you created in the SwitchBot App. I've heard that Serena is quieter, but I don't find these to be annoying. 4 to 3. They included a remote which works well but isn’t very attractive to mount on wall and isn’t very useful in a drawer. Join us on discord… I have the same blinds. After almost 2 years of flawless HomeKit usage, this was new. He uses this once a day and since may battery % is around 60. Once I figured that out, it was easy to set the blinds up (both fully paired the first time) and they're exposed to HomeKit working perfectly. He’s been using it with zebra shades (day and night). And it seems Eve motionBlinds and Eve upgrade kit are one of the best options out there. Jun 3, 2024 · The best HomeKit smart blinds on the market can be used to automate opening and closing all of the blinds in your house, letting in light and heat (or shutting them out) with just the touch of a button or your voice thanks to Siri. Yes, but like everything else Switchbot, I'm sure homebridge or homeassistant will have a plug-in soon enough that brings them into Homekit. They aren't visible on HomeKit. As far as HomeKit off-the-shelf roller blinds go: IKEA is your value option that works very well (~$150 per window), Eve is your mid-range option that has updated tech and more options (~$300 per window), Serena Shades is the luxury option that you’ll only outfit an entire house if you have money to burn (~$1,000+ per window). com UPDATE: I finally got hold of tech support at Blinds. This leads me to believe the request is getting lost somewhere in the HomeKit bridge. I have 4 somfy Venetian blinds, they are solid, but only specific motors are compatible with HomeKit through their bridge. ly/HomeKitDiscord For a simple 32"W x 72"L motorized venetian blind, Levelor's site puts it at $750 while the Lutron blinds are $600 and have a bullet-proof integration with most other smart home platforms, HomeKit in particular. My smart home is about 95% where I want it and I'm not going to start repl counterpoint: i have two ikea blinds and they installed quickly and easily and i had no issues pairing the blinds to the hub, nor pairing the hub to Homekit. I have tried for years to get my Lutron wood blinds to work in HomeKit/homebridge. ipwdsliz ajrbdj plk honbrjrj vev tdw rtpu vnd qkpc nxur