The SHC hub and App has been re-designed to embrace the architecture of a home and provide effortless control of motorized shades. Easily operate or Personalize the daily routine of shades; organising them by room, grouping them by scenes and automating them with timers. Unlock the convenience of smart shade operation, with the Smart Home Collection with Version 3.0 app
The new Smart Home Collection App not only allows you to activate, adjust and automatically position your shades but does so through One Tap on the Shade Tiles. One Tap to close, One Tap to open and One Tap to activate and stop scenes. A double tap stops a shade’s operation, and a single long press opens a dedicated shade control screen giving you access to more customized settings.
White tiles indicate the shade is open or partially open and a shaded tile indicates the shade is closed.
Quickly view the Health Status of all your shades. A summary screen displays the battery levels of all your shades along with signal strength indicators, prompting necessary action to either charge your motors or troubleshoot connections.
Smart Home Collection App lets you create an automation routine, and once setup, autonomously raises and lowers your smart shades at the optimal time, so your home’s climate is always at its best.
The Smart Home Collection app has been designed to make controlling your shades easier than ever with a long list of features and control options!
MOTOR TYPES
The SHC hub supports a variety of shade types including: Roller Shades, Romans, Awnings, Drapery, Venetians, Cellular, Skylights, Large Outdoor Shades. Support for Top Down, Bottom Up devices are now available.
LIVE FEEDBACK VIA ARC
ARC technology enables live communication between your Smart Home Collection and Automate shades, so you always know what position your shades are in, as well as the battery percentage of your motor. Quickly check shade information within the app or ask Siri to check for you!
SUNRISE AND SUNSET DETECTION
Utilizing your home’s time zone and location, the Smart Home Collection app can automatically raise or lower your shades according to the position of the sun. Set a ‘Morning’ scene and watch all your shades promptly rise when you start your day, or create an “Evening” scene that will dynamically alter based on the sunset in your location.
SCENES
Personalize shade control and organise how your shades operate by specific daily events or scenes automatically at the optimal time. Creating a scene for your entire home can be completed effortlessly with a Scene capture button.
SHADE HEALTH
Check the health of your motorized shades at a glance with Battery level and Signal strength icons on your device tiles.
COMPLETE CONTROL HOME AND AWAY
If you have multiple locations like a home, office, or vacation home, simply switch between them for independent control. Always be in charge of your privacy and security! Enjoy your time away from home without having to stress about your shades, the Smart Home Collection app allows you to remotely access your shades, know their position and operate them as you would if you were home.
PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCE
Share your hub with multiple users! Each user can create their own profile and a list of their favorite devices and scenes.
HOMEKIT
The SHC hub is HomeKit compatible, shades are automatically added to the Home app and can be controlled with voice commands via Siri compatible devices.
SMART INTEGRATIONS
We’re all about convenience, so we’ve partnered with all the latest smart home assistants to deliver the most convenient shade control options. Intuitively operate your shades with simple voice commands through Amazon Alexa, IFTTT, SmartThings, and Google Assistant.
This was infuriating - after digging around and a lot of trial and error I disconnected from WiFi and used cellular to get past the “select your time zone” screen and complete the setup. The error message of “resetting your settings” was completely unhelpful. If I didn’t have to use this app I wouldn’t. Still two stars cuz at least it worked eventually and setting up the shades was pretty straightforward
Excellent after support helped me complete setup process.
Little to no improvement
Rave reviews for this app’s support services. Extremely helpful, patient, and knowledgeable. The issues we experienced with the setup of the hub were due our home wifi extender. Tech support diagnosed the issue and walked me through setup. Once that was complete, connecting the shades from Budget Blinds was very easy. The app is pleasant to use once you learn what needs to be done. Overall, I think the app deserves a much higher rating than it currently enjoys. If you experience issues, call tech support. They’ll get you going!
Unreliable Experience
Ivan0372
So I’ve had the motorized blinds for Budget Blinds installed for about 4 months now. I can definitely say that this is the most unreliable smart home products I have ever used. Not only does the Smart Home collection app fail to communicate with the App, but the Alexa voice experience is very unreliable and the Apple HomeKit integration is the worse. Almost all the of the time HomeKit status is no response. If you buy the motorized blinds expect to use it only with their remote. If you want a better smartphone experience you’ll need to upgrade to something more reliable like the Lutron Serena shades. I don’t think budget blinds should be selling this product as a smart home solution.
Tech support
Crimmat
We have had our motorize blinds 2 and half years now, and anytime we have needed help with the app or modem, this guys have been fantastic, today Quenten helped us because one blind was not performing A+ and he is so nice and patient guiding us and solved our problem super quick and efficiently, worthy of an A+ recommendation Thank you so much
- Users can now transfer hubs between accounts with notifications sent to both parties on acceptance or decline
- Location selector added to Shades, Rooms, Scenes, and Timers dashboards for quick switching between locations
- Framework upgrades for improved stability and performance
- Minimum supported iOS version is now iOS 15.1 or later
- A notification inbox has been added, currently supporting hub transfer notifications with room to expand
- Minor cosmetic updates to text input modals
- A loading indicator now appears when enabling or disabling timers
- A reverse awnings option added in device settings without changing motor direction
Version 320.8
The developer, Home Franchise Concepts LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More