Smart home upgrades just got smarter—and more energy-efficient. Graywind, a leader in smart window treatments, has unveiled its innovative Manumatic Roller Shade Collection. This breakthrough product ...

Smart shades are one of the most useful and stylish gadgets in any smart home. There's nothing quite so dramatic as punching a button and watching a whole interior space open up with natural light.

Wazombi's Smart Shades are a simple product. The body of the device sticks to the wall beside your window, you feed the line from your shade into the wheel of the device, and it turns to crank your ...

Matter-enabled smart shades? Nothing new there, and same goes for smart shades that support Power over Ethernet. But Matter shades that do the PoE trick? That’s new in our book. SmartWings has just ...

Is there anything lovelier than natural light? Unfortunately, Mother Nature’s rays aren’t as easy to control as your simple on/off switch. Or, at least, they weren’t. Smart home developers have been ...

One of the biggest headaches of installing smart window shades is figuring out how to power the motors. Relying on AC power requires an ugly wall wart and hiding the resulting wires, but relying on ...

WEFFORT offers a ton of different smart shade options, including roller, cellular, zebra, roman, sheer, outdoor, woven wood, drapes, and more. Within each category, you’ll find a variety of neutral ...

Stoneside makes beautiful and luxurious motorized window shades, but its third-party smart technology is not quite as good as what its top competitor offers. The do-it-yourself approach to buying and ...

Hunter Douglas, a manufacturer of custom window treatments, has combined smart technology and shades to create new smart shades using PowerView Motorization. These shades, privacy sheers, blackout ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Smart shades are a great addition to a smart home; they play well with smart lighting to automatically keep your ...

Why add wisdom to your windows? Automated shades and instantly tinting glass are not only easier to use than conventional devices, but they allow homeowners to play with design and add a new layer of ...

Smart shades are among the most sophisticated and elegant window treatments you can buy for your home, but they’ve traditionally been very expensive and required a ...