I finally convinced my parents to replace their old ratty bamboo manual shade on the sliding door. This blind is perfect. I looked around, but this was a good price and had good ratings on Amazon.
I got the Bluetooth hub so i could control the shade with Alexa. This is nice because I can set schedules for automated opening and closing. The directions are pretty good, but it wasn't clear that you should set up the hub first, if you are using one, then set up the shade as a sub device to that hub. That way you can control it with Alexa. If you set it up directly to your phone and then add a hub, delete the shade from your app then re-add it as a sub.
Otherwise, I just tell Alexa to set it to a percentage, 100% being closed.
Very good build quality, the cloth-covered valence was well worth it and well done, as with the covered weight bar. I can't figure out how to get the valence off to reach all the buttons.
To activate and enter pairing mode, remove the plug from the bottom of the motor end of the unit. I had to get a pair of needle nosed pliers to reach up and get it out.
