PowerView

I have been wanting these Window coverings for the last five years and finally my husband bought them for me for my birthday! The functionality of the Powerview app is unbelievably practical. I can close the shades to block out the UV rays of the afternoon sun, open them later and totally close the shades for the evening-all automatically. I don’t have to even think about it. Save a lot of $$ on air conditioning bill too! In addition, it gives the house an “I’m at home “ look when we are away for a few days. In short, this function on my beautiful window treatments is not only easy to operate, practical and functional, it it a home safety feature too!

I have had 11 Hunter-Douglas PowerView shades for the past 4 months, and added a 12th just last week. I’m an app developer, and I’ve been impressed with everything Hunter-Douglas got right: the UI is especially intuitive, and for the most part, the app and especially the shades have been rock-solid reliable. However — there’s a continuing issue with the app occasionally not setting the scene data in the hub correctly. It appears as if the scene data can somehow get corrupted between creating/modifying a scene, and then transmitting that scene data to be stored in the hub. This issue was verified when Hunter-Douglas’ superb support technician guided me to slightly change the scene data, causing it to be written out to the hub again. That solved my problem. As an app developer it appears to be an initialization or corruption issue, which could be tracked down by embedding more data validation into the app. I might suggest the data be checksummed and the checksum be stored both in the app and on the hub. That way, any degradation of data could be automatically detected and perhaps the issue could be found and corrected. All that said, the above issue is mostly a temporary frustration: the product has been a pleasure to work with, and now that HomeKit is supported, I can ask Siri to invoke any scene.

I just don’t understand the negative reviews I’ve read. Maybe they’re really old? This app works so well now. Note the overall star rating. This app is SO COOL. I can time scenes to adjust my shades at certain times of day, I can use my google home mini (or Alexa) to control my shades with voice commands, all in all this is a cool cool app. It’s so convenient not to have to walk around the home and adjust shades manually at morning or at night. And if I forgot to close or open shades after I’ve left home, I can do it from anywhere with this app. Get a PowerView hub and have some fun. Love showing off this system to all my friends and family!

I’ve had PowerView since the beginning. Upgraded to the Gen2 hub shortly after it was released. The setup was easy and migration to Gen2 was flawless. All shades respond to my commands either with the scenes tab or through automations. The calibration function through the app makes it easy the correct minor fluctuations in the limit stops. The Gen2 hub with the wireless option makes it easy to move the hub to the central part of the home and then move your Gen2 repeater to wherever you need a little more signal coverage. If you need assistance the Hunter Douglas PowerView team is ready to help.

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The convenience is great, yes, but when rating the functionality of the app in relation to how it's supposed to perform, there's a lot of room for improvement. Previous versions have had bugs with the setting of the blinds in the app is not matching how they are actually set in real life, which is annoying but at least they work. With this new update, when selecting all 3 blinds in one room, they simply do not respond to any action to open them. They just flutter and don't move. In order to open them, you have to select one blind at a time, then open, which is just a pain since that requires like 9 actions to open the blinds in one room. Please fix this bug and release an update ASAP. Thanks.