PowerView

HunterDouglas

About this app

Control your home's window coverings from the convenience of your Android phone or tablet. The PowerView® App provides intelligent operation of popular Hunter Douglas window coverings. Adjust your window coverings to manage incoming light and energy usage throughout your home with the tap of a button or through automated operation. The PowerView® App merges seamlessly with your connected lifestyle, providing a level of convenience and ease that is the crowning touch for your Hunter Douglas window coverings.

Features:
• Control Hunter Douglas motorised window coverings, individually or in groups, throughout your entire home.

• Quickly and easily navigate the app using built-in tabs: Dashboard, Rooms, Scenes, and Schedules.

• Add favourite Scenes, Blinds, and Automations to your Dashboard, so they appear first whenever you open the app.

• Create customised blind position settings called "Scenes" for convenience, or to manage your natural lighting and privacy needs throughout the day.

• Put your Scenes in motion using Schedules. Easily program your Scenes to activate automatically at different times of day to deliver the look and comfort you want, without you having to press a button. Configure Schedules to occur at a specific time, or based on unique Sunrise and Sunset times in your specific location.

• Easily enable or disable Schedules, so that your blinds take the day off when you do.

• Manage your Home from anywhere with RemoteConnect™. This requires a PowerView® Gateway, an Internet connection, and initial in-home setup.

If you need help or have a question, email us at [e-mail] or call +1-844-PWR-VIEW (US), 1-800-265-8000 (Canada).

Ratings and reviews

Actually pretty comprehensive and hasn't had an issue in the 24hrs I've been playing with it. You can configure scenes, schedules, the remote buttons, and even the hub's LED brightness in the app. Super easy to transfer ownership. The app even has an LED color chart to interpret the Hub's status. Definitely better than I expected given the low rating on here, so that was a pleasant surprise. I'll update this if it disappoints in the future, but so far would recommend.

Unable to connect to a Powerview Hub v2 with full functionality. Nearly always can only connect via "RemoteConnect" which only provides access to triggering predefined scenes. This makes the app virtually unusable since I can't adjust programmable settings, scenes, rooms, or manually adjust blinds to a custom state. About a year ago, it would only get in this state about 50% of the time, but now never leaves this state. Please fix this already.

TL:DR: Do yourself a favor and find a shade solution from this century. The app controls the blinds fine on its own, but adding a gateway is impossible through this app, at least on Android. The flow to add a WiFi network is broken, once you do manage to get a WiFi network added to a gateway (through sheer trial and error without ever seeing a success message) the gateway will never correctly add to the shade network. Even when literally holding the gateway up directly next to the shade.

What's new

● Bug fixes and performance enhancement