SmartWings Transformation
SmartWings Motorized Light Filtering Roller Shades 70% Blackout Safari
Our family moved to our forever home. We contracted a builder and designed this with a high ceiling. During the construction, my wife challenged me to put up shades to set it up on the day of our possession. I do not want to use a temporary paper-based ones, so I asked the builder to provide me access to the construction and I went in with just a simple measuring tape.
SmartWings provided really great documentation and so I was comfortable doing that even without the ability to double-check the measurement before ordering. On the day we took possession of the home, I installed two (2) roller shades in less than an hour without prior experience and my wife was very impressed of that.
The ease of ordering, installation and setting up the automation are many features of SmartWings shades that we love.
A year later, we decided to fit roller shade on the highest window. I rented a scaffolding and I was able to install that alone, and of course I fitted this with a Solar panel.
As for home automation, the SmartWings shades we got are Alexa based, but under the hood these are actually Zigbee. The Alexa Hub I was using at that time keeps on resetting its Zigbee profile (Amazon device bug/issue), to resolved that I took these off from the Alexa Hub, and I implemented custom setup with Zigbee2MQTT along with my own Alexa Smart Home app. It is now working for me and my family like a charm.
To extend that, I also built an outdoor Arduino-based device that records the UV scale and when it reaches a certain threshold at an average, that device will send a trigger to close the roller shades. Our main room shades are now self closing - not by time, but by certain intensity of the sunlight facing our main room.
Overall, the SmartWings shades is a complete roller shade solution. It is great in terms of aesthetics, ease of install, fully document and its home automation feature are highly reliable.
In total, we fitted our home with eight (8) SmartWings roller shades and we are very much happy with the product. Thank you SmartWings!
Shout-out to anna@ (of SmartWings) for answering all of my questions and taking care of my needs for all of my orders.
