We had someone come to our house yesterday to measure for some Serena blinds we want to install, and after an hour plus of measuring, going through materials etc, he finds out that ONLY the wood blind option is not HomeKit compatible and they said it was Apple's decision, not Lutron's.
Has anyone ever encountered/heard of this before? This seems insane to me that Apple would specifically not allow only their wood blinds to not work with HomeKit. Roller and honeycomb are just fine apparently.
We really don't want roller or honeycomb shades in our house, so what's our bests course of action here? Would it be possible to use home bridge to get this to work? Is that reliable, because these blinds aren't going to be cheap and if home bridge doesn't always work, or could easily break in the future, then we might as well go with non automated wood blinds instead.
Thanks in advance!
Has anyone ever encountered/heard of this before? This seems insane to me that Apple would specifically not allow only their wood blinds to not work with HomeKit. Roller and honeycomb are just fine apparently.
We really don't want roller or honeycomb shades in our house, so what's our bests course of action here? Would it be possible to use home bridge to get this to work? Is that reliable, because these blinds aren't going to be cheap and if home bridge doesn't always work, or could easily break in the future, then we might as well go with non automated wood blinds instead.
Thanks in advance!