Smart Shades You Can Actually Afford! (SmartWings Review)
Smart Shades You Can Actually Afford! (SmartWings Review)
These are super budget friendly smart shades for your entire house! It’s an awesome way to upgrade your smart home that won’t break the bank (even if you only retrofit one or two rooms). The motorized shades look beautiful, with Zigbee controller they connect with my SmartThings for easy automation routines, and perfect for vacation mode or solar passive homes to help with heating and cooling throughout the year.
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What else would you recommend for those starting up their smart homes? Like top 3 things that you currently use?
is there blackout version of these?
Does it work. With Tuya Bridge
They start at $179 or $198. But you have add ons. Motor, solar panel, shipping etc. I ordered for 2 sliding glass doors and I ended up paying $1,500
2 months in, still happy? Considering nearly 2 dozen of these.
Could you use android phone to control those shades or is It only iPhone
I clean windows, dirty glass.
Hi, I am looking for an outside mount option since I don’t have a lot of wiggle room for an inside mount. The window trims are 1 3/4" in height. Do you know the height of the valance of shades is enough to cover the top trim ? I don’t like it exposed if outside mount is the only option I have.
Hi, would you know if these shades work with apple HomeKit?
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ahh my windows are 106 inches wide I’d need two & there would be a gap between them
thanks for redefining what is ‘ affordable.’
With the SmartWings blinds, are they centered in the window (for inside mount) when installed or 1/2 off to one side due to motor placement in the cassette?
$175? no thanks
Yea $300 is affordable for one blind…mfer
These look great! Thanks for the amazing review!
My dream is a house completely outfitted with smart shades… they would be so convenient!
Nice
I actually like your dual layer trick, Ben. I just ordered a few, but I think I’ll make some updates for my master bedroom.
How lazy have we humans become that we cannot even walk 3 feet from out bed to the window to close it. If there is an aconomic collapse, 95% of people will not survive
“Shades you can afford” Total comes out to 400
Cool idea, but way too expensive
These are not affordable
These are base price
They charge you for every feature
Please change
Your video description
IKEA is affordable
The problems with all the shades is they never block out all the light from coming in.. i like it pitch black
it is not possible to install this in 5 mins
Installed 18 of these a little over a month ago (have 2 sunrooms which are basically all windows on 3 sides). I’m using smarthings to automate them based on sunrise/sunset, away modes, etc as well as using alexa as needed. Took a while to set them up in the smarthings b/c you can’t batch set heights but aside from that, loving them so far. Spent around 4k all in. Other smart shades would have set me back closer to 10k for the number i needed.
I’ll never understand how anyone considers $150+ per blind "affordable"
Well… Are the tuya China cloud based or can i use them a little more dumb mode?
Look nice but I’d stick to buying a paper shade for my room I’m staying on rent month to month cuz I don’t plan to stay there any longer next summer.
Are they synchronized when going up and down?
I’m looking for some that works with Siri.
Great idea but now i am deciding to spend either 100 for a window on faux shades sinc eeach room has 6 windows and these will run me expensive. For a whole house.
brb… measuring all my windows. probably won’t order the blinds because I’ll forget to, but they look AWESOME
Can I pair them with a third party Smart button?
What’s your reasoning behind putting the layered blackout shade as an outside mount and not an inside window frame mount. Loved the video.
How much did it cost you to do your entire house? Sounds expensive (and awesome)!
Great vid budd, thank you
What is the warranty
Don’t be fooled when this says "affordable" I just checked and they are no more or less affordable than all the other over priced motorized blinds out there.
"Not much more". Proceeds to show blinds at half the price
Can’t remember if you mentioned warranty?
Hand gestures are distracting
This is just an ad for smartwings