App Profile: The Shade Store V2

horsedaddy70

Rating: 3/5

It keeps removing two shades after a few days that were added.

Daryl Zero

Rating: 3/5

It took some persistence, but I got the hub set up with six window shades. There’s an issue with two black buttons lacking labels every time I add a device. I was able to use the screen reading accessibility feature to learn the top one is to add another device and the bottom one finishes out the current one. Credit for those being labeled for the screen reader; however, I had to go through several buttons that were not labeled for accessibility. So now I have everything working with scenes in Home Kit. I decided to try adding my 3rd floor window to my first floor hub, and it worked! Kinda. It’s not reliable, which is why I have a second hub, but while I can add it to Home Kit, the app fails to pair and wants to delete the Home Kit setup and start over. I haven’t worked through that yet. One note. When I set up the Home app, I had added the six windows to The Shade Store app, so Home just pulled all six in quite nicely. When I added the upstairs window, I couldn’t see a way to add it to the Home app. Unplugging the hub and plugging it back in did the trick, now I’ve got all seven windows. I’ll see if it can control that seventh without a hub in the same room—I doubt it. There’s also a discrepancy in the battery readings in this app and the Home app—for the couple windows showing a power level in the Home app.

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Rating: 1/5

The hub works fine the app will not stay programmed lose all rooms and blings within 2 hours of programming very frustrating