somfyTaHoma Hub - Smart Home Gateway for RTS Blinds, Shades, and Awnings - Compatible with Voice Assistants, Easy Setup, Ethernet Connection Required for IOS - #1811731, #1870470

This needs to be near the shades when you program it. I tried it 25 feet away and thought it would work - nope. I moved it to the room of the shades and everything went well. The app is ok but can be touchy to learn. As of Jan 2025 download the TaHoma app on the app store. Dont download the NAmerican one as it wont work. You have to add each shade. If its communicating (TaHoma APP and Shade) your shade will "jog" when setting it up. Be patient. If you have any problems during the install and getting your app running go online to the manufacturers site - somfysystems.com for support. I had to type in my issue, hit submit and about two days later a tech called me and we worked through the issue. Once you master the APP and all shades are "connected" there are some neat functions you can use to schedule your shades. So far I give it Five Stars. App setup and communicating probably 4 stars. After you get everything set up with your hub/shades you can probably move it to a location you want. For some reason the shades need a strong signal from the hub during setup. I moved my hub elsewhere after setup and it worked fine.

The first issue I had was with the WiFi connectivity to this hub. The Tacoma will only connect to your phone if it is using the 2.4GhZ channel of your wifi router. If you have something like a Mesh network, you do not get to select which channel of your router your phone connects to. If it is connected to the 5GhZ channel, you are out of luck, and will have to hard-wire the hub to your LAN, so hopefully you bought the version of the hub that comes with the dongle for doing so, otherwise you have to buy this as well.. Once you connect to your LAN, you can try to attach your devices (shades, in my case) to the hub using their TaHoma App. I followed the steps in the app precisely, and after spinning for quite some time the app failed to connect to any of the shades, instead stating that an Error had occurred. There is no description of the error, explanation of the error, or explanation of what you can do to get around the error. This is a worthless piece of junk and I am returning it for a full refund.

Better than the wifi enabled wall wart for a third party automation controller. You are able to hardwire this device.

I use this to control my Somfy blinds.First make sure you can control your device (blinds) with a remote or with the device app.Next download the TaHoma app. Add your devices to the app.Set up your scenes by room,etc.Link your devices to the Alexa app.Go to third party integration in the TaHoma app. Open the Alexa app and allow Alexa to discover your TaHoma devices and scenes.If you add a blind or scene after this step Alexa will add it because you let Alexa access your Tahoma account.You can also add any Alexa supported device like lights, tv’s etc to Alexa.At this point you can control the blinds with the remote, the TaHoma app, or AlexaI did have a problem with one blind. It seems the wireless transmitter is not working on the blind.14 other blinds worked with no problem.I have not used tech support.

The media could not be loaded. Ni siquiera es una App la de Tahoma, ya que solo abre una pagina de internet desde el acceso directo en el dispositivo móvil. No lo compren¡ Vean el video en donde compruebo que el dispositivo ya ha sido activado (led verde) pero no permite hacer nada, ni siquiera puedo restaurarlo puesto que debo contactarme directamente a somfy y no atienden ni los correos. La activación es muy rapida pero para añadir las persianas RTS ya no es posible, marca error cada intento que hago para abrir la función y dice que es falla de conexión del servidor. No compren este accesorio. Me contacté a soporte técnico de Somfy y no me han respondido. Voy a tramitar mi devolución de inmediato.Actualización Enero 2023: Después de haber recibido asesoría de Somfy NO PUDE CONFIGURAR este dispositivo, sigue apareciendo el mismo error de servidor y atendí todas las instrucciones de Soporte Somfy sin éxito, ni ellos pudieron descifrar la falla cuando les envié toda la evidencia que pidieron. Usé un VPN en mi último intento tratando de conseguir la activacion correcta del equipo pero no tuve éxito. Lástima de marca pero este no sirve.