Motionblinds Bridge

Coulisse BV

About this app

MOTIONBLINDS BRIDGE

The MotionBlinds bridge needs to be installed to:

Control MotionBlinds motors away from home with your smartphone
Operate multiple blinds at once by creating rooms and scenes
Connect MotionBlinds to smart home platforms to make the blinds work together with other devices in the home, for example, the lighting or thermostat
SET UP

The MotionBlinds bridge is an additional device that is added to your home and needs to be paired with the blinds to control the blinds. Set up and operation of the MotionBinds Wi-Fi bridge must be done with the MotionBlinds Bridge app. How-to set up MotionBlinds Bridge:

Buy the MotionBlinds Wi-Fi Bridge and download the MotionBlinds Bridge app.
Open the app to create your MotionBlinds account and login to your account.
Install the bridge and follow the steps in the app to connect the bridge to your home Wi-Fi network.
Pair your blinds with the bridge in the app.
Connect the bridge to your smart home platform in the app.
CONTROL

Once your blinds are paired with the Wi-Fi bridge, you can use the MotionBlinds Bridge app to control and automate the blinds from anywhere in the world using your smartphone:

Open and close your blinds from work or on holiday.
Automate your blinds by creating rooms, scenes and timers which are programmed into the bridge from the MotionBlinds bridge app.
For example:

Set a timer called ‘good morning’ and your living room, dining room, hallway and kitchen blinds will open to 30% at 8.30am on weekdays.

Per bridge up to 30 blinds can be connected and up to 20 scenes and 20 timers can be programmed into the bridge using the MotionBlinds bridge app.

The home can be operated by more than one person. By sharing your home with family or friends from the MotionBlinds Bridge app, you can provide access to your MotionBlinds bridge settings to your family members.

CONNECTIVITY

Yes - after connecting the bridge to, for example, Google, Alexa, or SmartThings, you can control MotionBlinds from your favourite smart home platform. Here you can make the blinds work together with other smart devices. This also enables voice control through smart assistants.

No – MotionBlinds Bridge does not work with Apple HomeKit.

PROS

+ Control your blinds by app at home and away from home

+ Automate your blinds by creating rooms, scenes and timers

+ Automate your blinds to sunrise/sunset (location based)

+ Works with Google, Alexa, SmartThings, and other smart home platforms

CONS

- Needs installation and setup of the bridge

- Requires an account and registration

- Does not work with Apple HomeKit



Need support? For videos, manuals and frequently asked questions please visit support.motionblinds.com.

Ratings and reviews

Poorly designed with missing functionality. Not intuitive. App loses settings so you repeatedly have to set up your bridge, groups, and routines. The user security controls are super overbearing so that only the person who set them up has the ability to set routines, rename, or modify the blinds. The connection to Alex is terrible. The blinds only show up in the Alexa app for the person who set them up. Really terrible user experience.

The app is so bad that not even the bridge setup works. It shows an error message (http connection error) and jumps back to the start screen. Utterly dysfunctional. And the app support is apparently inexistent, they don't even respond to emails. Thus, the terrible app makes the motionblinds bridge completely useless.

Setup was pretty easy. However scheduled scenes not working correctly. When i schedule my shades to open fully, they most of the time only open halfway. Still trying to figure out whats causing this. I don't think it's a battery issue since I've already charged my shades.

What's new

- Rebranding and improved UX.