How to get voice activation for motorised blinds?
How do you control your blinds with Alexa or Google Assistant?
We now live in a world of voice activation and automated processes. Have you ever thought if your existing smart home hub such as Amazons Alexa or Google home device can control your motorised blinds? If you own a new generation of Amazons Echo or a Googles Assistant enabled device you can now control your blinds by simply buying an appropriate hub.
If your blinds are Somfy powered you just need either a Somfy TaHoma or Connexoons hub. If your blinds use a cheaper motor such as the popular onetouch motors from Louvolite there is a hub available for these motors also. The hub is connected to your router and with an appropriate skill in the Alexa app you can have voice activated blinds in no time.
Somfy TaHoma
Somfy TaHoma is the easy to install home automation system that makes controlling your house simple. With TaHoma you can open your blinds, switch off your lights or operate your garage doors all from your smartphone or with voice activation. It’s modern living at its finest.
With TaHoma® you are always and everywhere connected to your home via the app on your smartphone. Simply connect your electrical equipment, such as your blinds, lighting, security, heating and garage door, to TaHoma®. Now you can control all these products remotely: you close your shutters from the office or switch on your outdoor lighting from your holiday address.
With TaHoma® you create a comfortable Smart Home. TaHoma® is optimally compatible: Somfy alone has more than 100 products that you can connect to TaHoma®. Furthermore, TaHoma® works with many other major brands, such as Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, IFTTT, Philips HUE, Sonos, Velux, Honeywell and Danfoss.
The TaHoma® app
TaHoma® ensures that everything communicates with each other. It is your ‘command center’ from which you program and send out all your requirements and wishes. Easy to install and very user-friendly. TaHoma® is extremely safe. Optimal, and according to the highest requirements, protected against ‘hackers’ so that unwanted intruders are always kept at a distance.
Easy to install and operate
All Somfy products are very user-friendly in operation. All functionalities work intuitively and the installation of the products is also simple.
You can operate each connected product individually, but you can also choose to:
- have products work together through scenarios
- preset a product to turn on or off at specific times
- control scenarios or individual blinds with voice activation
With Somfy TaHoma®, you can easily adjust your equipment at home and always enjoy the optimal atmosphere and temperature. Your house adapts to you and your life.
Somfy Connexoons
The Connexoon RTS enables you to centralise, control and program Somfy RTS connected interior blinds, curtains, garage doors, gates and lighting. Control via app or voice assistant.
Benefits
Control your home with your smartphone, the only remote controller you always have at hand and that works anywhere, anytime. Or why not connect Connexoons to your smart speaker for voice activation.
- A choice between 2 apps to control areas in your home with your smartphone: Window or Access.
- 2 great ways to control and manage your home remotely, enhance your well-being and gain peace of mind.
- Unique, clear and fun functions to enhance your home