SHC Budget Blinds 4+

Shade Motorization

Home Franchise Concepts LLC

Designed for iPad

    • 2.9 • 34 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

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.

What’s New

Version 316.1

This update includes:

- Battery Level Upgrades: Significantly improved, battery management, so you are informed before your devices run low.
- Tap on Battery or Power icon to display your Power percentage.
- Updated GIF during Hub Pairing
- Hub Tile will only show the Serial number for: Easier device and room additions.
- Implemented a feature allowing users to choose their device type, enhancing the accuracy of the displayed battery percentage.
- Further enhancements have been made in the representation of battery percentage within the Shade Health screen.
- Introduced an animation effect for when a user opens or closes a shade in the Manage Device Screen.

Ratings and Reviews

2.9 out of 5
34 Ratings

34 Ratings

JBFBELL ,

Not connecting at time zone selection

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

Ivan0372 ,

Unreliable Experience

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.

bhfsyigbkt ,

“Upgrades” strike again

I hate this app now. Like every other app, every time there’s an update, it gets worse. I used to be able to click on a shade icon to go into it, and then select open, close, or set a position. Now whenever I click a shade icon, it toggles open or close. Or a room icon toggles all shades. I have to click and HOLD to get into the shade now. How is this an upgrade? It takes longer to do what i want to do.

Like every other smart app, i wish i can revert to a previous version.

App Privacy

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

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