SwitchBot Automatic Curtain Opener - Bluetooth Remote Control Smart Curtain with App/Timer, Upgraded High-Performance Motor, Add Hub to Work with Alexa, Google Home, HomeKit

I recently purchased this product. The setup was quick and easy without too much trouble. It was nice that I didn't have to take down the curtain rob in order to install it. The installation tutorial had both photos and videos on how to do it. After installation, I was able to setup the device in silent mode where I couldn't hear the device at all. Even though I have a relatively heavy curtain, this device was able to move it with easy while remaining silent. This is a great alternative to a sunrise clock to instead use natural light. It has a lot of different attachments so should work with most curtains.

So first of all, I want to say this product is an absolute GAME CHANGER for waking up in the morning. My wife and I use light blocking curtains so we can sleep at night with street lights and cars and such outside at night. But then in the morning, we can't wake up. So I tried this product. Once I got it installed, it *very quietly and slowly* opens our curtains at a set time in the morning and we wake up *NATURALLY* without any alarms, feeling refreshed. My wife couldn't wake up til 10 or 11, now she is routinely up before 9 feeling refreshed. Me as well! Now for the cons. I almost gave it 4 stars instead of 5, but the life improvement is so great it overrides the cons. It's a little tricky to install properly. We have a 5/8 inch wide curtain rod, which is the max it can accept. The device has a VERY VERY firm grip on our curtain rod. So much so, that when I first installed it, it made some clicking sounds even in quiet mode, that I would wake up from (I'm very sensitive to sounds). What I found is that the little metal hooks with rollers that it hangs from are *bendable* somewhat. I managed to finagle its grip to be slightly less than it was, and now it doesn't click. A good improvement the company could make would be to add some way to adjust the tightness that doesn't involve anxiety that the user might void the warranty :) And also engineer it so it cannot make clicking sounds even if it is tight. But I got it finagled. So basically, if you can persevere through a few frustrations in the installation process, this product can change your life and health. So 5 stars. It was worth the mild frustration. :)

It’s a pretty neat gadget! Straightforward to set up, making it easy to automate your curtains in no time. Programming the schedule is a breeze—you can tailor it to your daily routine with a few taps, like having your curtains open on weekday mornings and close in the evenings, or sleep in a bit on weekends with later opening times. The flexibility of the scheduling options is definitely one of its strongest features. That said, there are a few drawbacks. For example, requiring an account to use the app feels a bit unnecessary, especially when all you want is to control your curtains without the extra steps. It’s not a deal-breaker, but it does take away from the overall seamless experience. In terms of functionality, though, the device performs as expected, and the motor is strong enough to handle even heavier curtains. If you catch it on sale, it’s an even better deal! All things considered, I’m giving it a 4/5—good value with just a few minor frustrations. Although I strongly recommend buying this one sale

- My expectations were very LOW for this product. It just seemed a little gimmicky. And as you can see the reviews are not stellar. But whatever, I had a new home and I wanted to do a lot of automation particularly around my office ("the engine room"). - I bought a pair to try em' out. After one month I liked them so much I bought another pair, the HUB2, and the Solar Rechargers! - I have the HUB2 linked to Apple Home Kit and the things just work flawlessly. "Hey Siri. Good morning!" is one of my favorite things to say in the morning as my lights come on and my curtains open. - This product has been SOLIID for 4 months so far, and it's still fine. - The only modification I had to do was... I have the smallest curtain rod size it will take... and over time... I noticed one rod would rotate. This becomes a problem because there are special metallic stickers that be SwitchBot needs to see in the middle of the rod... and when they can't be sensed... it causes issues. But I fixed the bar from rolling, and after that... it's been 100% - I was very skeptical that the solar rechargers would work too... BUT THEY DO! Checking right now .. after 3 months... I have not had to charge them one time! My office gets direct sun a few - Firmware upgrades happen! They care about good software! - And it's smart software. It has never once run rampant because it can't sense the magnets in the center of the rod (when I had that issue) nor has it gotten confused and run off the end. When it didn't the magnets, in my case, it made an intelligent guess as to where to stop. - They are expensive, $400 for 2 windows is an attention getter, but I must say I do like mine. - Solid product. Heavy duty. Great plastic choice. - The only thing I would change if I could is the noise. It's not horrible, it's not even bad, it just sounds a little gear-e. But I'll take it.

I’ve got a huge smarthome setup and have automated quite a few things, so when I ordered this I kind of knew what I was getting myself into. I ordered the product and just let it sit for a while because I was dreading the typical setup > get confused > something goes wrong > troubleshoot for hours loop that typically comes with this kind of product so when I finally got around to installing it, I was pleasantly surprised. The setup was super easy and instructions were clear and concise. It came with everything you need and there were no serious issues. Attached some videos to show the smooth running. I was actually concerned it would struggle with the bump in the curtain rod where the smaller one goes into the bigger one but it had zero issues with it. I also ordered the solar charger to go with it and it snaps right it and hangs from the base of the device, keeping it in sunlight to charge with almost zero installation outside of unboxing and plugging it in. A couple important notes for others that I didn’t know before buying: these aren’t issues at all, but just stuff to be aware of that I didn’t see or didn’t think about before hand. 1) If you have a support in the middle of your curtains (like a 3rd bracket in the middle to hold your curtains up), you’ll need a second SwitchBot to open both sides and can’t use just a single one. 2) The solar charger does hang down from the main switch bot and would be visible during the day if you had sheer curtains. Some folks may not like that. Also, if your SwitchBot is defaulting to having your curtains all the way to one side or the other, it may not have the solar charger in the window long enough to charge. You CAN fix this, however, because they’ve got a really neat feature built in where you can tell it to auto charge during the day by bringing the SwitchBot into the sunlight no matter where it’s at, when it needs to. This just means your curtains won’t be at your preferred setting for a bit while it charges, but it really beats taking it down and charging. 3) Lastly, you do need a slightly thicker curtain rod - not crazy thick, maybe about the size of a US nickel or a little smaller. I have a pretty thin curtain rod on one side where I started, but it’s the telescopic kind so the other side is thicker and I flipped it over and it was fine. The little arms that hang on the rod actually have a lot of room to adjust to account for a lot of sizes, but they can only get so small so if you’ve got very thin curtain rods, be advised. That stuff all told, I’m very happy with mine and am planning to buy a few more now to fill up my curtains! I’m enjoying it quite a bit!

I am such a fan, I expected a cheap Chinese product but the box and product is like apple or something really high quality with a lot of thought put into it. Setup seemed daunting but then was easy after watching a video. I didn’t use any of the clips or anything, not even magnets for my setup. And it works great. But probably need them for other curtain style. I absolutely love the quiet drift feature. So cool! Literally silent and feels really classy when it opens slowly. I use it to open my blackout curtains every morning in a schedule

Works great and installation was honestly a breeze. There's a lot of info in the instructions so it might seem overwhelming at first but you realize it's because they write the instructions for EVERY single curtain type. It's really straightforward and I didn't use the beads for my grommet curtains. Literally just snapped the thing onto my curtain rod, stuck the magnet sticker thingy on one end, and it was good to go. The major gripe I have about this is that we were all misled into thinking this was Alexa compatible. it is not. You need to buy the hub to make it Alexa compatible. I also am not even sure how the hub would make this compatible, what extra functions I'd actually get through my Alexa if I were to connect this through a hub... it's all very unclear. And because having everything streamlined through my Alexa is a priority for me, I had to knock off 2 stars.

* Update* After 10 months of working ok it stopped closing the curtain all the way. I re-synced it, etc but it still didn't work. So I contacted support through the app and got a quick reply giving me some instructions which were things I already did. They also wanted a video of me trying to stop the motor with a pencil. I answered all their questions but denied sending a video. Afer almost a month and three emails from me asking for the status I got an email telling me to communicate via the app even though they send me emails. So I did and received a reply saying they were kicking it up a level. Still waiting. *Original review* I have a west facing house and the sun is pretty intense in the afternoon not to mention the heat that comes with it. I have insulated drapes on an eight foot west window that has to be manually opened and closed. Since I'm usually not home when the sun starts to warm up the house from that side I usually just leaves the drapes closed during daylight hours then open them in the evening. Not a major chore but it got old. Found this product and it sounded like it was worth a try. The installation wasn't bad but it could have been better explained. Fortunately there are videos available. My biggest problem was with the rod I was using. It's an expansion rod and the drapes have grommets. Even before installing this the drapes would hang up on the rod making it difficult to close; the grommets would flatten out when being pulled and drag on the rod. They include clips that attach to the top of the grommet and each clip is connected to the next grommet clip with a beaded chain. That keeps the grommets from flattening out. Problem was the clips would hang up at the point where the smaller part of the rod went into the large part. They also include a piece of metal to use if this is a problem. It makes sort of a ramp from the small to large pieces. Good idea but it didn't work. The only other solution was to replace the rod with a single rod, i.e., not an expansion rod. My rod was brushed nickel so I headed down to my local big box store and bought a 10 foot metal conduit and cut it to size. It looks exactly like my old rod. That solved my problem and the drapes open and close with no problem. I did have to re-calibrate a few times during the installation but it's easy. I made a program that closes the drapes at lunch time and opens them again at sunset. I haven't had this installed very long so it still catches me by surprise when my drapes automatically start moving.

Een makkelijk te installeren product met de looks and feel van een Apple.

A lot of step by step setup but it was easy to understand. Needed to adjust things to fit them in my home. Initially a bit worried that the white color device on my black curtain rod would be too noticeable but it seems okay on it. A bit of spending to just open curtains automatically but love it as set times to open and close by itself. Also motorized rods are even more expensive and they are not portable. Still think it would be better to install powered motorized one if do renovation next time for long term as no worry for batteries or solar panels, and clean look.

Hands down the coolest home automation i bought! Works well and very easy to install. Works with app, have schedules set with sunrise and light levels (need a seperate hub/charging thing for that) also a very handy little feature is if you pull open the curtain gently then it automatically triggers the open close which is great if you dont have phone handy. Handles the extended curtain rods very well

بعد شراء وتجربة المنتج وجدت أنه يؤدي الغرض ولكن *لا أنصح بشراءه* لسببين أساسيين وهما: (1) يحتاج إلى الـ hub الخاص من نفس الشركة لكي يعمل مع بقيه أنظمه المنزل الذكي (مثل المساعد الصوتي أليكسا) وهذا يعني تكلفة إضافية وتطبيق إضافي في قائمة تطبيقات المنزل الذكي. (2) السعر المرتفع، وهذا يشمل جهاز واحد لفتح جهة واحده فقط من الستائر، وان كان لديك ستائر تفتح من جهتين فتحتاج إلى جهازين مما يعني ضعف التكلفة. وبشكل عام يؤدي المنتج الغرض الأساسي المطلوب عمله وهو فتح الستائر وإغلاقها يدوياً أو من تطبيقهم الخاص. ولو أردت المزيد من المزايا فعليك تحمل المزيد من التكاليف.

Ho acquistato questo device dopo oltre un anno di indecisione sulla sua utilità e sul fatto che funzionasse poi come promesso... Beh. l'unico vantaggio che ho ottenuto ad aspettare e' che nel frattempo e' uscita la versione V3... Per il resto, avrei decisamente fatto meglio ad acquistarlo prima ! Funziona egregiamente ed installarlo e' stato un gioco da ragazzi, di una semplicità estrema. Viene fornito con tutta una serie di accessori per ogni tipologia di tenda (pendente ad anelli come nel mio caso, ma anche per quelle ad anelli con tessuto forato, o a bretelle sia strette che larghe...). E' veramente un prodotto ben pensato ed altrettanto ben realizzato. La funzionalità di movimento silenzioso e' veramente impossibile da sentire e se non fosse per la tenda che si sposta, sarebbe impossibile sapere che sta funzionando. Unica piccola pecca (momentanea, perché il Servizio Clienti mi ha confermato che stanno lavorando per risolverla): se utilizzate Alexa, al momento non potete regolare la percentuale di apertura o chiusura coi comandi vocali (bisogna farlo eventualmente con l' App SwitchBot). Se usate Google Assistant questo problema non c'é... Attenzione che per poter controllare il device serve anche un HUB (ne basta uno per poter controllare questo ed altri devices di SwitchBot) ed io per puro caso, e per fortuna, ho scelto lo SwitchBot Hub2, che e' anche un comodo termometro ed igrometro, oltre ad essere un repeater IR (ad infrarossi), col quale posso comandare anche il climatizzatore e la TV (ed ha anche 2 tasti programmabili per poter eseguire comandi o routine programmabili). In un'epoca di prodotti SMART, oserei dire che i prodotti SwitchBot non sono solo SMART, ma addirittura SMARTER ! Ben fatto SwitchBot: sono sicuro che altri vostri prodotti entreranno presto a casa mia...