carealtor Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 (edited) Which motor did you order? From what I've read, most or all of you are using the Z-Wave motor? I'm wondering if I should get the Matter Motor? I don't think I want to get into Zigbee. I'm also wondering if the Smart Link hub they offer would be an option. I don't know how (or if) IOX would integrate with it. Thanks Edited February 18 by carealtor added more questions Link to comment
GTench Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I went with Zwave. Been working very reliably Gary 1 Link to comment
TheA2Z Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 I have 10 zwave Smartwings shades. Work great controlled with eisy. I have 2 matter smartwings shades. They also work great but cant be controlled with eisy yet. I use a smartthings hub to control them. I believe the matter ones cost more for the motor. Honestly cant go wrong with either but if you want to control with eisy, I recommend getting zwave. 1 Link to comment
carealtor Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 2 hours ago, TheA2Z said: I have 10 zwave Smartwings shades. Work great controlled with eisy. I have 2 matter smartwings shades. They also work great but cant be controlled with eisy yet. I use a smartthings hub to control them. I believe the matter ones cost more for the motor. Honestly cant go wrong with either but if you want to control with eisy, I recommend getting zwave. Well shoot. I ordered the Matter motor assuming it would work. Are you saying the Matter motor does not work with the eisy/polisy ZMatter card? Link to comment
TheA2Z Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 (edited) Eisy doesnt support Matter yet. See link below for hubs that work to control them until Eisy has Matter control. I went with Smarthings Station but you can get any of the Matter Thread border Router hubs listed on the link below: Work With Matter Over Thread – SmartWings (smartwingshome.com) Edited February 24 by TheA2Z updated 1 Link to comment
carealtor Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 I see. I haven't been following the ZMatter progress as I did not have a reason to until now. I can wait. It's fine. ☺️ Link to comment
TheA2Z Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 @carealtor There are multple post on zMatter availability here so you can track it: ZMatter - Universal Devices Forum (universal-devices.com) For now, there is always the remote.... I have been happy with the 2 zmatter Smartwings shades. Smartthings hub was cheap and easy to setup so been handling the daily opening and closing with it. 1 Link to comment
dwengrovitz Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 I recently ordered and installed nine SmartWings woven shades, and I went with the Matter motor. For now, I use Amazon Echo devices to handle the automation (e.g., opening in the morning, closing at night, etc.). The Matter motor has been just okay so far. On some days, I notice a shade that didn't open or close as expected, so reliability hasn't been rock solid, but I can't say if that's the shade motor fault or the controller side. As other stated, there is always the remote. That works flawlessly, and I like that it can open a single shade or multiple shades in a group with one click. The battery operation and design of how one can customize various operational parameters (e.g., setting upper and lower limits, pairing motors to various remote channels, etc.) is really kind of elegant. I did run into a couple of issues where I needed to contact customer service, resulting in some shades that needed to be remade. On one, a clip came loose inside the rod during transit and it made an odd noise whenever I raised or lowered the shade. On a couple of shades that were supposed to be light blocking, there was a defect that allowed light through in several points where the back of the shade was stitched to the guide for raising/lowering. Their customer service folks were excellent to work with and they fully addressed the issues I experienced. Overall, I'm very pleased with the end result. The jury is still out on whether going with the Matter motor was the best decision. It adds a lot to the price, and a fully reliable implementation still seems more promise than reality at this point. Like others, I am hoping the UD team releases an update to eisy so I can run my shade automation from that instead of the Alexa app. 1 Link to comment
carealtor Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 So, hopefully a little help and insight here for someone who has not gone down any of these roads before (Homekit, Alexa, SmartThings, Google). Once the shade is working with, let's say Amazon Echo... would the shade be controllable from IOX through the ISY Portal Amazon Echo integration? Link to comment
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