SmartWings HomeKit Shades Review! 🪟 Building an Apple Home
SmartWings HomeKit Shades Review! 🪟 Building an Apple Home
My detailed review of SmartWings – affordable, easy-to-install smart window shades that work natively with Apple HomeKit. Discover their seamless integration, Thread-enabled speed, design variety, and much more, all without needing a hub or third-party app.
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Shades Shown in Video
SmartWings Motorized Light Filtering Roller Shades 70% Blackout Safari
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:28 SmartWings Installation
01:13 Shade Design Options
01:30 Apple Home and Thread
03:45 Siri Share Controls
04:34 Shade Noise
04:52 Remote Control Options
06:00 Power and Charging
06:46 Cost and Ordering
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It’s so nice to see more affordable options for custom shades and such high-quality ones at that. Thread for the win!
What color fabric is shown in your video?
Nice video. I may have missed it but can you adjust these manually? ie without using the app, siri, or remote?
Thank you, that what i looking for.
Great video. Used Ryse / Axis adapters to convert bead blinds into being Zigbee + homeKit enabled and it’s been nightmare.
@Stephen . This is awesome. I would love to convert my window blinds to Homekit. However for each small window it costs $474 which is crazy expensive. Are there any DIY affordable Homekit options ?
can you sync multiple blinds together to open and close them together partially or full?
Smart Wings really missed a great opportunity for some great commercials here w/Paul Rudd & Sean William Scott…though it’s not "sturdy wings", it is close enough to where they could have had some real fun with it…i do understand the expense associated with Rudd, and Jane Lynch is no slouch herself, but it would’ve possibly been subsidized by partners as well 🎉😂 😊
Hey, I’m always about a party🕺……..and that bass….🤷♂️
Can you set specific middle positions (percentage) for automations other than full open and full closed?
Thanks. Going to pick a few up.
This is all I need to know! 😂🎉 Thx brother! SD
Does it require any hubs? Like an HomePod?
How do you charge with power bank? I see the port on the rod. Do you connect usbc and leave it in the air? Will the cable stay holding the weight of power bank that will be in air?
Can blinds be operated manually if motor or something else go bad?
you need to add nfc tags to your house
still stupid expensive, give me a DIY link pls 😛
I’m sold! Since I bought my 77" LG OLED TV, I use blackout paper shades. Not only will this be a cooler solution, but literally a smarter one. Thanks!
I Love my smartwing blinds I dont the thread ones just the bluetooth I have had 12 of them for 6 months now and they work great even with bluetooth! I love the fabric options too!
just a note, i found out yesterday that you have to pair a remote before you can pair any smart home. i bought a 2 nd without the remote and got frustrated not knowing that. Their support is awesome, and they informed me of that as soon as i filed a ticket.
I highly recommend these, and, we have plans to buy some more
Good review just discovered these. What colour did you get? Also in the long term any issues with such a long blind? I will need a few long ones as well,.
nice vid! i wish more homekit products used thread