Crestron Home Guide

Crestron Home Guide



OVER VIEW

PowerShades is a leading provider of customized, manual and automated window coverings for residential, commercial, and hospitality applications that are easy to install, integrate, operate and maintain. Company founders Jason Turner and Ryan Chacon bring over 50 years of combined experience in furniture automation and product innovation and development to this market. PowerShades offers the industry’s first and only TruePoE automated roller shade. PowerShades offerings include indoor and outdoor window coverings with a wide range of operating methods, including AC and DC powered, RF, solar powered, and the True PoE solution. PowerShades products are sold through distributors and representatives throughout the U.S. and Canada.

      


FEATURES
• Manufacturer-Sponsored FREE Driver

• RF Shade Driver

• Two-Way Driver

• Commands

      • Up
      • Down
      • Stop
      • Position

• Feedback

      • Position

      • Battery Volts

• PoE Shade Driver

• Two-Way Driver

• Commands

      • Up
      • Down
      • Stop
      • Position

• Feedback
      • Position

      • BatteryVolts

• Position Feedback

      • Event fire on FullyOpen
      • Event fire on Partially Open

      • Event Fire on Close

• Battery Volt feedback
      • Event fire on low battery 



INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION

The PowerShades Home Driver is available for installation directly from the Drivers menu in the Pair Devices

step in the Crestron Setup App. To find the driver you need to go into


1. Pair Devices
2. Drivers
3. Platform
4. PowerShades
5. Select the Controller
6. Press the + button 
















7. Enter the name of the controller device, this is the name of the folder where all discovered PowerShade devices will be located.
8. Enter the poll timeout time in seconds. Creston will send a Status Update command to each blind every x seconds. Enter 0 to disable this feature. 




9.  After devices have been discovered a folder will be displayed on the left part of the window.
     Note: If no devices are found, ensure that all devices have been Paired and Feedback has been linked.

10.  Add the devices to the rooms as required by clicking on the + button. 




11. Enter the descriptive name of the device. This name will appear on the tile in the room page. 




12. Enter the battery's low level. This is the level that the driver will send the low battery alert. Set to 0 to disable.

13. Enter the device name. This name will appear on the title of the device page.





MANUAL INSTALLATION 

If you want to replace the driver from the online database, or if it's not currently there, you can manually install the driver. To manually install you will need to first copy the driver on to your Crestron Home processor. You will first need to make a SFTP connection to the processor, you can do that with software like Cyberduck or Filezilla. Once you are connected you will need to copy the driver to the /user/ThirdPartyDrivers/Import folder. With this done you can go back to the Standard Installation steps. 





CONTROL

To control a PowerShade device you first need to select the device from the room page. Click on the desired device and you will be presented with the controls shown below, allowing you to send open, close, and stop commands and set the position of the shade with the slider.

      


SEQUENCE

The following functions of the shades are available to use in sequences. For 2 way feedback, ensure that each device has been paired and linked. 


SET PERCENT

The position of the blind can be set as a percentage anywhere between 100 for fully open and 0 for fully closed. 

OPEN

Sends the blind to 100 percent open.

CLOSE

Sends the blind to 0 percent open.

STOP

Sends the stop command, this will only be effective if the blind is currently moving. 



EVENTS

When the blind has been paired and linked to enable feedback, it will send a status to the driver after an action is complete. The driver can also poll all devices which will regularly request the status. This feedback can be used to trigger automation when a condition listed below is met. 

FULLY OPENED

This event fires when the Shade position changes from a partially opened or closed position to fully opened.

PARTIALLY OPENED

This event fires when the Shade position changes from either closed or fully opened to a partially opened position. 

CLOSED

This event fires when the Shade position changes from either partially opened or fully opened to a closed position.

LOW BATTERY

This event fires when the Shade reports a battery level lower than the Battery Low-Level value set when adding the shade to a room.


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