Hunter Douglas is a window covering maker headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, whose PowerView range adds motors to shades and blinds. Shades are controlled with Pebble remotes and the PowerView app, and a PowerView Gateway adds remote access and links to other smart home systems.
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PowerView shades talk to the app and remotes over Bluetooth, and a PowerView Gateway (Gen 3) or Hub (earlier generations) puts them on your home network. On Gen 3, Hunter Douglas supports Alexa and Google Assistant natively, Apple Home through Matter, and professional control systems such as Control4 through drivers. Home Assistant, openHAB and Homey also reach the Gateway on the local network.
That suits people who want shades in scenes with Apple Home, Alexa or Google Home, or in an integrator-installed system. It is less simple on older Gen 1 and 2 hubs, which do not have the Matter route, and Hunter Douglas says Matter controllers other than Apple Home and Google Home are not fully tested. Compatibility depends on hub generation, so check yours before buying.
Source: Hunter Douglas: Connect PowerView Gen 3 to smart home devices
The single app for PowerView shades. It controls blinds individually or in groups, sets scenes by position, runs schedules including sunrise and sunset times, and offers remote access through RemoteConnect, which requires a Gateway. Version notes mention Matter integration, PowerView Tap support and Scenes and Rooms widgets for Gen 3 only. Hunter Douglas says every customer can use the app without extra components such as a hub. Published by Hunter Douglas Window Fashions. iPhone requires iOS 16.6 or later. The Android link uses the package name com.hunterdouglas.powerview, seen on third-party pages and in a Control Concepts driver document, and we could not load the Google Play page itself to confirm it.
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| Platform | Status | What it means | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connection | |||
| Bluetooth | Yes | Hunter Douglas says PowerView Gen 3 is built on the Bluetooth protocol with two-way communication between the shades and the system. Home Assistant's page says Gen 1 and 2 Pebble remotes use proprietary Bluetooth Low Energy while Gen 3 remotes use RF, which conflicts with Hunter Douglas's wording, and we could not resolve this. | Hunter Douglas: Gen 3 Gateway FAQ Home Assistant PowerView |
| Wi-Fi and Ethernet | Unconfirmed | The Gateway connects PowerView to the home network, and the openHAB and Home Assistant integrations reach it over the LAN. The Hunter Douglas pages we read do not say whether it uses Wi-Fi or Ethernet, so we could not confirm. | Hunter Douglas: Gen 3 Gateway FAQ |
| Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread | Not mentioned | None of these are mentioned on the Hunter Douglas pages we read. | Hunter Douglas: Gen 3 Gateway FAQ |
| Matter | Yes | Hunter Douglas says PowerView Gen 3 Automation supports Matter, built into the PowerView app, and needs a PowerView Gateway or Gateway Pro. Matter is the main route to Apple Home and an option for Google Home. The page does not use the terms bridge or controller. Only Apple Home and Google Home have been fully tested, and other Matter controllers may not work well. | Hunter Douglas: PowerView and Matter Hunter Douglas: Gen 3 smart home help |
| Voice assistants and ecosystems | |||
| Amazon Alexa | Official | Enabled in the PowerView app, with voice commands to open or close shades and run scenes. It requires the PowerView Gateway. Hunter Douglas recommends keeping the native Alexa integration rather than switching to Matter. | Hunter Douglas: Gen 3 smart home help Hunter Douglas: PowerView and Matter Alexa Skills store |
| Google Home | Official | Two routes: a native integration in the PowerView app that imports scenes and suits triggering presets, and Matter through the Google Home app, which Hunter Douglas says is better for individual shades, especially multifunctional styles. Both need a Gateway. | Hunter Douglas: Gen 3 smart home help Google Home compatible devices |
| Apple Home | Official | Through Matter, which Hunter Douglas calls the primary route. Shades appear in the Apple Home app and respond to Siri, including setting a level such as 50 percent. It needs a Gateway and an Apple TV or HomePod as home hub. | Hunter Douglas: PowerView and Matter Hunter Douglas: Gen 3 smart home help Apple Home accessories list |
| Samsung SmartThings | Not mentioned | Hunter Douglas says SmartThings has been lightly tested and compatibility may be partial. The article gives no setup steps. | Hunter Douglas: Gen 3 smart home help |
| Control4 and other professional systems | Official | Hunter Douglas lists Brilliant, Control4, Crestron, Elan, Josh.ai, RTI, URC and Savant as connecting through drivers or apps, typically installed by integrators. Josh.ai is said to populate automatically from the Gateway. An RTI driver by Control Concepts, a third party, talks to the Gateway over TCP port 80. | Hunter Douglas: Gen 3 smart home help RTI driver (Control Concepts) |
| Open platforms and developer access | |||
| Home Assistant | Yes | A built-in Hunter Douglas PowerView integration supports Gen 1, 2 and 3 hubs. It is classed as local polling, discovers the hub automatically and exposes covers, scenes, buttons, numbers, selects and sensors. On Gen 1 and 2, shade positions may be wrong when moved by a remote, and forcing an update drains battery shades. Gen 3 shades report position changes. It is maintained by the Home Assistant project, not by Hunter Douglas. | Home Assistant PowerView |
| Homey | Official | The PowerView app on Homey lists Hunter Douglas Europe B.V. as an official author. It works on Homey Cloud, Homey Pro, Homey Pro mini and Self-Hosted Server, supports the Gen 1 and 2 Hub and the Gen 3 Gateway, and the page says every supported device requires a Homey Bridge. Version 2.11.1 is about a year old at capture and fixes wrong positions on Gen 3. | Homey PowerView app |
| openHAB | Yes | The Hunter Douglas (Luxaflex) PowerView binding in openHAB's add-on list supports Gen 1 and 2 hubs and Gen 3 gateways over the local network, with discovery. Repeaters, scene groups and automations are Gen 1 and 2 only. It is maintained by the openHAB project, not by Hunter Douglas. | openHAB PowerView binding |
| Node-RED | Unconfirmed | We did not find a Node-RED node for PowerView in the pages we checked. We could not confirm one exists. | Searched, no source |
| Hubitat | Unconfirmed | We did not find a Hubitat driver for PowerView in the pages we checked. We could not confirm one exists. | Searched, no source |
| Domoticz | Unconfirmed | We did not find a Domoticz plugin for PowerView in the pages we checked. We could not confirm one exists. | Searched, no source |
| IFTTT | Unconfirmed | We did not find a Hunter Douglas service on IFTTT in the pages we checked. We could not confirm either way. | Searched, no source |
| Philips Hue | Not found | No integration found in the pages we checked. | Searched, no source |
| Hunter Douglas local API | Unconfirmed | We found no official public developer program. Home Assistant's integration is local polling, and an RTI driver reaches the Gateway on TCP port 80. A document titled PowerView Hub REST API is packaged with the Python library aiopvapi, but we could not open it, so we could not confirm who published it or which hub generation it covers. | Home Assistant PowerView RTI driver (Control Concepts) |
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Yes. Hunter Douglas says PowerView Gen 3 Automation supports Matter, built into the PowerView app, and needs a PowerView Gateway or Gateway Pro. Matter is the main route to Apple Home and an option for Google Home. The page does not use the terms bridge or controller. Only Apple Home and Google Home have been fully tested, and other Matter controllers may not work well.
Yes, officially. Enabled in the PowerView app, with voice commands to open or close shades and run scenes. It requires the PowerView Gateway. Hunter Douglas recommends keeping the native Alexa integration rather than switching to Matter.
Yes, officially. Two routes: a native integration in the PowerView app that imports scenes and suits triggering presets, and Matter through the Google Home app, which Hunter Douglas says is better for individual shades, especially multifunctional styles. Both need a Gateway.
Yes, officially. Through Matter, which Hunter Douglas calls the primary route. Shades appear in the Apple Home app and respond to Siri, including setting a level such as 50 percent. It needs a Gateway and an Apple TV or HomePod as home hub.
Yes. A built-in Hunter Douglas PowerView integration supports Gen 1, 2 and 3 hubs. It is classed as local polling, discovers the hub automatically and exposes covers, scenes, buttons, numbers, selects and sensors. On Gen 1 and 2, shade positions may be wrong when moved by a remote, and forcing an update drains battery shades. Gen 3 shades report position changes. It is maintained by the Home Assistant project, not by Hunter Douglas.
Not that we could find. Hunter Douglas says SmartThings has been lightly tested and compatibility may be partial. The article gives no setup steps.
Yes, officially. The PowerView app on Homey lists Hunter Douglas Europe B.V. as an official author. It works on Homey Cloud, Homey Pro, Homey Pro mini and Self-Hosted Server, supports the Gen 1 and 2 Hub and the Gen 3 Gateway, and the page says every supported device requires a Homey Bridge. Version 2.11.1 is about a year old at capture and fixes wrong positions on Gen 3.
Unconfirmed. We did not find a Hubitat driver for PowerView in the pages we checked. We could not confirm one exists.
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