The SwitchBot Curtain looks like a great way to help keep your home cool over the summer, but getting it to perform reliably is a challenge.
SwitchBot Curtain MSRP $99.00 Score Details “SwitchBot Curtain delivers mixed results for a questionable utility.” Pros Cons We’ve spent plenty of time looking at smart blinds, and SwitchBot is a name that routinely comes up. This company made a name for itself with a cute little robot that flips switches for you and has since expanded into just about every corner of home automation. They now make smart plugs, smart locks, and the SwitchBot Curtain.
Latching the SwitchBot Curtain onto your curtain rods is fairly straightforward. The hooks are removable and spring-loaded, so you can pull one hook up to catch the rod before snapping the second side onto the main body. It also has a simple LED and single button to help you through the Bluetooth pairing process. The mobile app it links to is generally straightforward, with helpful setup instructions. The room management portion is a little awkward; you can’t create rooms while adding devices.
The SwitchBot Curtain enjoys a growing ecosystem of supporting devices that can add a variety of conveniences. For example, SwitchBot sells a simple little button that can remotely activate the curtains as if you were doing it through the app. Though you typically connect to these curtains directly over Bluetooth, a separate hub can hop onto your Wi-Fi network and let you open and close them from the other side of the world if you wanted to do that .
Our take SwitchBot Curtain delivers mixed results for a questionable utility. Sure, curtains can block the sun from heating up your house on a hot day, but physically pulling those curtains myself has never been a huge barrier. Ultimately, having fully automated curtains is a luxury, but it’s really hard to feel luxurious with such a noisy motor.