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This robotic curtain box is designed to easily fit and slot into windows of a variety of sizes, and then uses smart and remote control options to easily adjust, open, and close the curtains themselves.
"Hello everyone and welcome to another Gamereactor Quick Look.
It is fairly easy to screw out the bulb on one of your lamps at home and put in a smart bulb from whatever brand you choose to sort of get into bed with."
"They recently share the same experience and functionality and there is a little Wi-Fi and Bluetooth transmitter in most of them, meaning that it is very easy to tie them onto a hub or on your home network.
Other smart home features are more involved getting working and one of the things which people have been asking for, clamoring for maybe for years, is to automate blinds in some way."
"This is usually something that you would automatically associate with a luxury high-end home, particularly because in old times, or at least now older times, is that you would have to have it custom made in some regard because not every window opening is the same space and it would have to be custom cut shades and it would have to be custom fitted in some way."
"Well SwitchBot has decided that that shouldn't be the case so this is the world's first adjustable, yeah, adjustable smart roller shade and it happens through this mechanism right here if I tilt it a little bit.
Right now these are fastened but they can sort of skew from one extreme to the other so there is a standard length, a maximum length, and a minimum length."
"Now obviously what you would then do is you would cut this particular fabric, which comes with it by the way, you don't have to supply your own shades, and you would attach these at the bottom so that they would be weighted properly but then you're actually off to the races which is a really incredible thing."
"By purchasing these, and by the way I can't quite remember the exact pricing model but it really wasn't too bad, and by far no longer sort of excluding people with middle incomes and, you know, exclusively for high end homes.
That is not the case here."
"What you get is a pretty fit and finish, ready to go solution which makes your home smart.
So let's say that your window is this, well then it can easily just be adjusted to that length.
You cut the fabric so that it fits the new length that you want and you're ready to go."
"These can even be side mounted next to one another if you have a big panoramic piece of glass at home.
Some people have that, we have that out to our little terrace where there is a really large piece of glass and we can just side mount these next to each other, elongate them to their full length and then we have our solution."
"Now this can run up to 8 months of charge on a single battery and if you want you can even purchase a solar panel extension so that it will work infinitely and when it's time to charge, well that happens through USB type C down here at the base.
Really really cool stuff."
"In terms of it being actually smart, it works wirelessly or wired or voice controlled.
It supports matter and all of the most important smart home integration app systems.
That means Alexa, Google, Siri.
That means that you can, particularly if you have a SwitchBot Hub, which we've already taken a look at here at the show, that you can very easily map controls to your Apple Watch, your phone or just asking Google to do it through Google Home."
"It is all pretty seamless.
So that would be, hey, keyword, lower the roller shades and then that happens automatically.
That just a couple of years ago was such a high-end techie notion but now it has become infinitely palpable and graspable thanks to a product like this."
"We'll be testing it out for sure and I'll let you know how it actually works in the real world but so far, it's pretty cool.
See you on the next one."
