Smart Home Collection
October 05, 2025
More About Smart Home Collection
White tiles indicate the shade is open or partially open and a shaded tile indicates the shade is closed.
Quickly view the Health Status of all your shades. A summary screen displays the battery levels of all your shades along with signal strength indicators, prompting necessary action to either charge your motors or troubleshoot connections.
Smart Home Collection App lets you create an automation routine, and once setup, autonomously raises and lowers your smart shades at the optimal time, so your home’s climate is always at its best.
The Smart Home Collection app has been designed to make controlling your shades easier than ever with a long list of features and control options!
MOTOR TYPES
The SHC hub supports a variety of shade types including: Roller Shades, Romans, Awnings, Drapery, Venetians, Cellular, Skylights, Large Outdoor Shades. Support for Top Down, Bottom Up devices are now available.
LIVE FEEDBACK VIA ARC
ARC technology enables live communication between your Smart Home Collection and Automate shades, so you always know what position your shades are in, as well as the battery percentage of your motor. Quickly check shade information within the app or ask Siri to check for you!
SUNRISE AND SUNSET DETECTION
Utilizing your home’s time zone and location, the Smart Home Collection app can automatically raise or lower your shades according to the position of the sun. Set a ‘Morning’ scene and watch all your shades promptly rise when you start your day, or create an “Evening” scene that will dynamically alter based on the sunset in your location.
SCENES
Personalize shade control and organise how your shades operate by specific daily events or scenes automatically at the optimal time. Creating a scene for your entire home can be completed effortlessly with a Scene capture button.
SHADE HEALTH
Check the health of your motorized shades at a glance with Battery level and Signal strength icons on your device tiles.
COMPLETE CONTROL HOME AND AWAY
If you have multiple locations like a home, office, or vacation home, simply switch between them for independent control. Always be in charge of your privacy and security! Enjoy your time away from home without having to stress about your shades, the Smart Home Collection app allows you to remotely access your shades, know their position and operate them as you would if you were home.
PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCE
Share your hub with multiple users! Each user can create their own profile and a list of their favorite devices and scenes.
HOMEKIT
The SHC hub is HomeKit compatible, shades are automatically added to the Home app and can be controlled with voice commands via Siri compatible devices.
SMART INTEGRATIONS
We’re all about convenience, so we’ve partnered with all the latest smart home assistants to deliver the most convenient shade control options. Intuitively operate your shades with simple voice commands through Amazon Alexa, IFTTT, SmartThings, and Google Assistant.
Latest Version
320.4.1
October 05, 2025
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User Reviews
Leonardo Mesquita
2 years ago
I can control all my shades at my home and my vacation home from my phone. I love this app
Rishu Khan
2 years ago
Doesn't work with WiFi 6.
Chadd Kuffel
2 years ago
I suggest using the Automate Pulse 2 app instead.
Candace Bates
6 months ago
The hub worked for a few months and permanently disconnected.
Michael Spohn
2 years ago
Horrible connectivity. Bad app with bad hub equals wasted money. Horrible. Would NOT recommended.
Julian Ramirez Ruiseco
4 years ago
This system does not work with 5Mhz spectrum at all. They don't give a damn about the customers, and don't intend to fix any part of it. I suggest you purchase different blinds.
Michael Roman
2 years ago
Ever since announcement about version 3.0 it logs out. Please fix I hate to log in all the time. This isn't a bank account where we have to put in our username and password.
Greg Janik
3 years ago
It seems to only get 20% of the commands (either manual or timer) now. The servers don't seem to keep a queue so missed timer events just never get executed instead of executed late.
Kowan Santiago-Jack
2 years ago
I've been have connection issues with Google Home and Alexa for quite a while now. I've done everything you can think of. I finally found out I can link smart home collections and/or automate pulse 2 to SmartThings. Then link it to Google Home or Alexa and it works. There is a slight delay but its working. I would suggest to get Somfy blinds if anyone is looking to change their blinds or looking for new installations. Good luck everyone.
Rose Craigie
1 year ago
Does not link to Google, could not add the replacement hub they sent after the recall, had to revert back to old hub. The error I get when linking to google home is "Could not reach smart home collection".
Shaun Williams
4 years ago
No issues with setup via app once I moved the hub to increase the connection strength during paring. This appears to be a rebranded copy of the "RTEC Automation" app from manufacturer, Rowley. Your account transfers between apps automatically.
Amanda Hoffman
2 years ago
Terrible app experience, doesn't work with Google Home as advertised. Not clear how to set up automations, and when you do, they don't work either. This app is so bad it makes me regret purchasing the "smart" blinds at all. Waste of money.
Galen Ballew
4 years ago
This app looks and feels like it was built by an intern. It was difficult to even search for documentation or instructions online. The hardware itself only runs on 2.4g Wi-Fi. If you're thinking about buying these blinds for voice control or other WiFi features, think again.
Tim McClure
3 years ago
Even worse now. Bootloop. The app does not fit the screen. The top is cut off so is very difficult to set up/use as all the top buttons - which are critical buttons - only have about a 2mm touch area. Managing settings going forward have the same issue. I found touching perpendicular (finger sideways) to the "button" rather than parallel is the only way to make it work.
Christina Spires
3 years ago
Just got the blinds and hub installed yesterday. It did take several attempts to connect to the hub. Tip: The professional said you need to temporarily disable your firewall to pair the app. The app does not fit the screen: the top bar of the three bars is cut off from the image. I can no longer see the Edit button! Pissed!
Ryan
4 years ago
Nevermind the poor quality of the app, has anyone managed to connect the hub at all? It literally won't let you proceed until you're connected to the hub's wifi, and then tell you it can't connect to the hub and asks if you're connected to the hub wifi. And the help section just takes you to the Budget Blinds website. Jeez...
Casey Chaplin
4 years ago
Installed the app and learned it is not compatible with my wireless. It needs 2.4Ghz (outdated wifi standard). Was able to add hub, but cannot pair devices. In fact, pairing process broke the pre-configured setting on the remote for that blind. Now down arrow on remote causes blind to go up and vice versa. Have to call Budget Blinds for instructions on how to fix it. BTW, I'm in IT and this app is not intuitive at all! Beware.
Mario Vetro
1 month ago
It never works. Unreliable. Blinds do not charge. Buggy. Disappointing
Jesse Tufts
9 months ago
Generally works pretty well. The hub timers will get out of sync over time, it must not have a very good internal clock? But they have a button to sync it in the hub settings of the app. This should be automatic really as our blind morning opening time will drift in the course of a few months if I haven't used the app in a while and synced it. Also, the timers really need a speed control "quiet mode" option so you can have them open slowly and make less noise as an early morning option.
Ian Sutanto
4 months ago
Not sure why they changed the app to make it worse. Now to check battery status of the electric blinds have to hold on each shade, click the setting wheel and inspect each blind for battery level. They don't seem to be very accurate any more either. One day it'll say low, then next day it's ok and a different one will be bad. In the past you could see a percentage battery for each blind on the home page.
