grant0830 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Has anyone worked with the new Pella Insynctive z-wave bridge and connecting it into control4?http://insynctive.pella.comThank you in advance!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turls Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Holy crap! These look to be able to be done on a retrofit... http://insynctivesupport.pella.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/296/~/video---retrofit-an-existing-designer-series%C2%AE-blind-or-shade-with-insynctive%E2%84%A2- If anybody has any hints on how to get the retrofit kits please let me know. The guy that sold me my Pella will probably never know a thing about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turls Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Insynctive bridge is Z-Wave. It lists Wink as compatible on the Insynctive web page. So unless I'm wrong you'd have to get the Houselogix driver for Wink AND you'd have to get Phil to update the driver to support Insynctive. Any Z-Wave experts care to give me more hope than this? I think the design looks killer with using solar or a wall charger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant0830 Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 Let me know if you can think of a solution for these. We are building a home and trying to figure out a C4 solution for the blinds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turls Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 The blind in window solution from Pella is so nice and I think unique to them. I never thought there would be anyway to do automation with those, and I knew that when I bought them. But now that there is a solution and I see the pricing, it might never happen anyway. Does anybody know if Pella has everything locked down to pricing or is it worth shopping around? The local Pella distributor gave me a ballpark number on the device + labor, and he said labor was half of it?? The install is a 15-30 minute job per window and I can do it myself, they even post the detailed video instruction online. Please PM me if anybody knows any tricks. It isn't like a window install where I can understand if they want to keep that locked down. This is a slam dunk compared to a window install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Contact Pella.Appears a driver may have been written for them for Control4 by a third party based on a Dealer Forum post dated July 2015.That is all I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turls Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 There IS a driver. That I confirmed. But it is up to Pella to release that. I have not called them yet to determine the status. I would suggest anyone with any interest call now instead of later to show your support for releasing a driver... According to my local Pella distributor, the CEO was canned and the lack of success with this line is a big reason for it. He didn't think they were going to be adding any more compatibility options. I hope that isn't the case. Pricing...not so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turls Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Has anybody pursued this lately? There has to be a ton of these in the field, to just sit on a driver indefinitely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c44me Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 how much $ do these cost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysant1 Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 I have the drivers for this product if anyone needs them. PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c44me Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 So does anyone know how these compare to others???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turls Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 8 hours ago, c44me said: So does anyone know how these compare to others???? What's to compare? If you have Pella blinds inside your windows its the only choice. With the price of them I can't see any reason why you would go with them otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c44me Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 On 6/7/2016 at 3:54 AM, turls said: What's to compare? If you have Pella blinds inside your windows its the only choice. With the price of them I can't see any reason why you would go with them otherwise. Haven't decided on which blinds to go with yet - hence the ?. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turls Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 4 hours ago, c44me said: Haven't decided on which blinds to go with yet - hence the ?. thanks. Ok, to be clear these are between the glass blinds--so are only going to work with Pella windows that open up to install these. And they are priced like everything else Pella sells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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