The Pebble Controller can move a single window covering or a whole group!

Picture this: You’re away from home for a few hours and the sun begins to set. Your $4 outlet timer from the hardware store clicks and the lamp it’s attached to comes on. Your errand takes longer than you thought and the house is empty. The street gets dark. Cars slowly drive by, every one of them looking through your big front windows into the house, wondering what they might see.

The automation that little timer provides could be so much more. Smart Home technology can do everything from turn your lights on to shut off the television, on a timer or through your phone, even if you’re not there.

Guess what else it can do.

That’s right. It can close the window coverings.

Hunter-Douglas offers a system called Powerview that uses the Logitech Harmony Hub  to connect multiple Smart devices together. You connect your phone or tablet to the Harmony Hub and then connect Hunter-Douglas’s Powerview shades and blinds to it. The Harmony Hub works with thousands of other devices you might want to control remotely as well, making the shades part of the larger Smart Home system. 

For example, you might add motorized drapery rods that can also be controlled by the Harmony Hub, making it possible to close all of your window coverings at dusk.

Once the system is connected, you can schedule your shades and blinds to move wherever you want through the Powerview app or with a Pebble controller. In addition to acting as a traditional remote control, the Pebble controller lets you control schedule individual windows or adjust groups of window coverings with one touch of the button. It can also schedule the groups.

Smart Home technology can give you a little extra peace of mind in a busy world. Schedule the system to turn on the light and close the blinds at the same time and no one can peer into your living room as they drive by your home at night. Contact us to talk about fitting your home with a smart system.