SmartWings Automated Smart Shades & Blinds Review
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- In this video I look in some detail at these great home automation smart blinds from SmartWings. I look at aesthetics, installation, sound, integration, ordering, manual control and what you can expect from smart blinds/shades in general.
They work with Siri/HomeKit, Alexa and Google smart assistants and they really are lovely smart shades that will upgrade any home.
Learn more: www.smartwingshome.com
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Contents:
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0:00 Intro
0:56 Ordering Process
1:58 Smart Assistant Integration
3:10 Installation
4:58 HomeKit Installation
5:34 What Can You Expect?
7:42 Noisy?
8:46 Double-shade Setup
9:20 Manual Control
10:12 Fabric Cover
10:57 What Else Is On This Channel?
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Loving your concise videos with almost close to no fluff. Keep up the great work Ben!
I'll look after a smart home if it's FOSS like our beloved split-keyboards, until then I'm fine with not-so-smart simple sensors. But the feature itself is indeed nice.
This is interesting - I actually think the proprietary experience with something like HomeKit is really impressive - it takes a heavyweight to develop something like that sometimes.
@Andreas Westrell You're right, I forgot about that. Was hidden in my RaspberryPi projects list. Guess I will look at it again, thanks for the reminder.
What I did was to add a smart home enabled IR repeater (it has thousands of devices and it can learn from your remote too) and that allows me to control blinds, television, sound bar, air conditioning, etc; and there is not lag at all.
It also allowed me to set up routines like "youtube time" where it:
- Dims the lights if they are on
- Closes the blinds if the sun has not set
- Turns on the TV and opens the youtube app in the TV.
- Turns on the sound bar
- And if it's hot, turns on the air conditioning as well
Also allows me to "turn off" rooms, where it just turns off everything there and closes the blinds.
I'm so pleased every time.
I'd love to see an open source version of this!
a lot of videos like this have been really interesting, as I'm adopting your keyboard philosophy of "do it yourself" for a lot of things like this. I'm not yet pulling the trigger on a pi powered assistant yet, but it's on the list. It would be interesting to try and create a custom ecosystem in the house using a set of open source equivalents to things like this
It’s definitely all possible - you can even go quite far using Homebridge that lets you connect the raspberry pi stuff to HomeKit
I'm also in the automation journey! But very very slowly. Interesting the having to choose an assistant... Mixed feelings but interesting. I hope they make it clear that the Alexa version requires a ZigBee enabled Alexa device for not all echos are. 😉 Great content!
Yea good point!
Can i make it open the blinds when the solar charger is charging and close when it stops? Also I have a window AC, do i measure the whole window or from top tonthe top of the AC?
The free shipping is good, I guess these will be subject to import duty in the UK
I've never heard someone pronounce "opacity" like you do, great video nonetheless
I'm pretty sure I said it wrong actually! Not sure where/when/why I started saying it like that. Cheers!
The remote control it really neat! From general videos of smart curtains: their sound and the slow and uncontrollable speed is what I don't like. I guess I'll just wait until someone (candidates?) decides to build an Arduino controlled PCB that anyone can then integrate with motors and speakers so I can finally have blinds that move and sounds just like those star trek doors!
How have they been working for you ?
They sent me the Thread version of the motors and these are much improved. Much faster to respond and quieter too. Definitely a good option in Thread form.
Man if those where my blinds and they made that bracket I'd rip the bloody things down ! funny how some peoples idea of a good sound is this reminds me of those annoying people in a cinema opening packets
I think you might have been hearing my typing sounds that were at the same time? I was typing on the sofa - the idea was that that sound would be a sound people would know how loud it is so they can hear the relative volumes.
Yes it's cool. No I don't think you will ever recoup the time invested setting it up/paying for it from the time it saves you manually operating a blind.
We have 5 smart blinds in this house now, all of them get used at least twice a day, often more. Lets say it takes 30 seconds to open one manually (including stopping what you're doing, moving around etc), I make that 30 hours per year wasted pulling chords up and down heh!
@@BenVallack 30 seconds to open a blind? I think you need to see a doctor sir. Have you factored in the time to charge the battery in your blinds? I think they're really sexy and I want a smart home, but you're living a lie if you think they're actually saving you time!
@@zbjz just tested it with a timer - was actually 14 seconds to open a chorded blind - starting at the hallway, walking into the room, opening then walking back to hallway, so a bit under 15 hours per year still! Charging them once every few months is a small inconvenience for sure- really though it’s the satisfaction of not interrupting yourself with menial tasks. You sit down to watch some tv in the evening and realise you want the blinds set differently, you don’t have to get up again to do it. Also having a bedroom blind letting light in to wake you is brilliant (as long as they are quiet). I do agree though, the benefit is much more on an emotional level than a practical one!
@@BenVallack My calculation is 3 hours. 365*30/3600=3
@@cooljibbin I have 5 blinds that get two interactions per day. Let's go with 10 seconds per interaction. 5 x 2 x 10 x 365 / 3600 = 10
I may be off the base here, but I think most of your audience are hardware and software enthusiasts with DIY affinity so pivoting to unboxing and reviews of stuff like this won't be very interesting. At least, it isn't for me. Show me open sourced stuff, hacky stuff, wacky stuff and I'm in. If I'm building my own minimalist keyboards I don't connect commercial blinds with siri, Home Assistant and stepper motors are more aligned with my principles
I don’t rule out good commercial projects when they solve a problem better than anything in the DIY world. Keyboards for me is a problem that has completely been failed to be solved by commercial projects, but nailed by open source! There’s a place for everything 😀
@@BenVallack you've got a point Ben and I still enjoy and watch your videos. We all come from different backgrounds and needs and inclinations to solve our problems. I don't have a Tesla but I'm sure people who have one or think about one appreciate your videos about it. Same thing with smart blinds: some buy, some diy them and others don't care. I'm voicing my opinion to give you feedback but I understand this channel is about your personal journey
@@yura979 Absolutely and I totally value your feedback. I am always interested in how much variation in themes there can be in a single channel - I want to look at how technology and design helps our day to day productivity so I think it's appropriate me to focus on the solutions rather than the methods - but as you say the audience will always have their own takes on preferred approaches.
Variety is great. Also it makes me appreciate his creativity and DIY spirit/thought process more. Like this vid is about gluing and integration with daily life. Heck, I don't own a car, let alone watching a carwashing automation video. But it has its own charms in showing us how Ben approaches problems and coming up with a solutions. I came to this channel previously for his keebs videos, but now I just watch/appreciate whatever he came up with to improve day-to-day living. Cheers.