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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-01Eve MotionBlinds Upgrade Kit for Roller Blinds
Exactly which product this is[1]
- Model number
- Not established
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- Not established
- Also sold or listed as
- Eve Motionblinds Upgrade Kit
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Home | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[3] | The only platform Eve gives extra features to. Eve names Apple TV 4K (2nd and 3rd gen), HomePod (2nd gen) and HomePod mini as qualifying Thread-and-Matter hubs. Adaptive Shading — schedules that track the position of the sun — runs from the Eve app on iPhone and iPad, not from Apple Home itself, and Eve does not offer it on Android. |
| Amazon Alexa | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[3] | Reached as a standard Matter accessory. Eve's hub table names Echo (4th gen), Echo Dot Max, Echo Hub, Echo Plus (2nd gen), the Echo Show 8/10/11/15/21, Echo Studio and the eero 6/6+/7/Max 7/Pro 6/6E/7 line as devices that carry both Matter control and a Thread border router. Eve's launch announcement names Alexa among the voice assistants. The Eve app's advanced scheduling features do not come with it. |
| Google Home | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[3] | Reached as a standard Matter accessory. Eve's hub table names the Google TV Streamer, Nest Hub (2nd gen), Nest Hub Max and Nest Wifi Pro. Eve's launch announcement names Google Assistant among the supported voice assistants. As with Alexa, Eve's own advanced scheduling stays in the Eve app. |
| SmartThings | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[3] | Reached as a standard Matter accessory, and Eve commits to it by name — its hub table lists the Aeotec Smart Home Hub and Hub 2, the SmartThings Hub V3 and Station, and select Samsung TVs and appliances from 2023 onward as qualifying Thread-and-Matter hubs. The claim is Eve's, made on a page that covers Eve's Matter range rather than this product specifically; the product's own FAQ points readers to that page for the compatible-hub answer, which is what ties the two together. |
| Home Assistant | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[3] | Named by Eve on the same hub table, which lists Home Assistant Green, Home Assistant Yellow and the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 and ZBT-2 as qualifying hardware. Worth knowing where the basis is thinner than the Apple cell: this is a range-level page reached from the product's FAQ rather than a statement on the product page itself, and Home Assistant has published nothing specific to this motor. Recorded full because Eve names the platform and the hardware explicitly, with that provenance stated rather than smoothed over. |
Protocols: THREAD · MATTER[1][7]
Needs before it works: Yes, and it must do two jobs at once. Eve states the requirement plainly in its FAQ — 'Yes, this Matter-enabled device requires a hub that supports both Thread and Matter' — and specifies the shape as a 'Compatible hub with Matter Controller & Thread Border Router functionality', pointing at its own hub list for the qualifying devices. The store listing repeats the condition at the point of sale: 'Requires iPhone, iPad or Android device and a compatible hub.' This is the generic Matter dependency rather than a vendor lock-in: Eve sells no hub of its own and names hubs from five different ecosystems as qualifying, so the buyer's existing platform decides the answer. Eve's own framing is that both functions usually arrive in one box — 'Each platform offers a selection of hubs combining these two functionalities in one device.'[2]
What it can do[1]
You can tell it to
- Open/close
It reports
None documented by the vendor
Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.
Subscription reality[1]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: No — no vendor account is involved.[1]
No subscription and no account, stated by Eve rather than inferred from silence: 'Eve Motionblinds Upgrade Kit for Roller Blinds works across platforms, offers all features without any additional subscriptions', followed by the three claims 'No subscription, no registration', 'No Eve cloud' and '100% privacy'. The absence of an Eve cloud is the load-bearing part — it is why the schedules stored on the device keep running when the internet does not.
Maintenance reality[1]
- Batteries: built-in rechargeable battery, charged over USB-C
- Works without the internet: Yes — the core function runs on the device or your home network. A vendor cloud may still be involved in remote access.[1]
- Eve publishes no rated battery life or capacity for this motor, and none is recorded. The fit specification is the thing to read twice before ordering, because the two variants are not interchangeable: the small-tube motor fits an outer tube diameter of 1-1.2 in. / 25-30 mm with a minimum blind width of 22 in. / 570 mm and is rated 0.5 Nm; the large-tube motor fits 1.5-2 in. / 38-51 mm with a minimum blind width of 26 3/4 in. / 680 mm and is rated 1.1 Nm. Eve's own store shows a standing reminder to 'Please check the correct tube size before ordering.' Installation replaces the chain: 'The Eve Motionblinds Upgrade Kit motor slides into the tube of your existing blind, replacing the existing chain mechanism', with mounting brackets included, and setup is done by scanning the Matter code in the Eve app. App requirements are 'iPhone or iPad with latest version of iOS/iPadOS, or Android device (8.1 or later)'. One capability is explicitly narrower than the rest: Eve's Adaptive Shading and its autonomous schedules are qualified in Eve's own copy as 'available via the Eve app for iPhone and iPad', so the Android app does not reach them.
- Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Eve publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.
The catch
Measure the tube before you buy anything. The kit ships as two different motors — one for tubes of 25-30 mm and one for 38-51 mm — with different torque ratings and different minimum blind widths, and Eve puts a standing 'please check the correct tube size before ordering' notice on its own store because getting it wrong is the common failure. The second cost is the hub. This is a Matter-over-Thread device with no radio of its own that a phone can talk to directly, so it needs something in the house that is both a Matter controller and a Thread border router. The good news is that Eve sells no hub and locks you to nobody: it names qualifying hardware across Apple, Alexa, Google, SmartThings and Home Assistant, so if you already own a recent Apple TV, Echo, Nest Hub, SmartThings hub or Home Assistant box, you are probably done. Third, the platform you pick changes what you get. Eve's Adaptive Shading — blinds that follow the sun — and its autonomous schedules come from the Eve app on iPhone and iPad only; Android gets the device but not those features. The part worth reading closely is what happens when the internet stops: Eve states there is no Eve cloud at all, no account, no subscription, and that schedules are stored on the motor itself, so 'your blinds will work independently of any iPhone or internet connection.' Finally, Eve publishes no battery life figure for this motor, so how often you will be reaching for the USB-C cable is a question its own pages do not answer.
Who it's for
Someone with existing roller blinds and a chain mechanism they want gone, who already owns a Matter controller with Thread on board and would rather not add another vendor's hub or account to the house. It fits a buyer who cares about local control and privacy — no cloud, no registration, schedules that survive an outage — and it fits an Apple household specifically, because Adaptive Shading runs from the Eve app on iPhone and iPad and Eve offers it nowhere else. It is the wrong pick if the blind's tube falls outside both diameter ranges or the blind is narrower than the motor's minimum width, if there is no Thread-and-Matter hub in the house and no appetite to buy one, or if the household runs on Android and the sun-tracking scheduling was the reason for the purchase.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
- [1] Eve Store, Eve Motionblinds Upgrade Kit for Roller Blinds — product page — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-01Backs: Product identity, Capabilities, Subscription, Protocols, Maintenance, Power source, Installation, Price, Works without the internet, Vendor account required
- [2] Eve support, Eve MotionBlinds Upgrade Kit for Roller Blinds — All FAQs — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-01Backs: Required hub or bridge
- [3] Eve, compatible hubs — Matter controller and Thread border router list — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-01Backs: Apple Home compatibility, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Home Assistant compatibility
- [4] Eve newsroom, US launch announcement — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-01Backs: Market availability, Price
- [5] unrecorded — the migrated lifecycle.research stamp carried no source field — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-08-01Backs: Research status
- [6] evehome.com, eve-motionblinds product page — vendor-page research (existing citation re-read), verified 2026-08-18Backs: Role in a Thread network
- [7] evehome.com's Eve MotionBlinds page, read 2026-08-20: "Wireless Connection: Thread" in the technical specifications, "The current version of Eve Motionblinds Upgrade Kit supports Thread", and — the load-bearing line — "Battery-operated Thread accessories, such as Eve MotionBlinds Upgrade Kit, represent endpoints in your Thread network." On infrastructure: "Yes, this Matter-enabled device requires a hub that supports both Thread and Matter" and "the only other thing you need is a home hub (Thread border router)". — protocols-definition sweep (BQ-222 batch 2; ruling §1 of docs/decisions/2026-08-20-RULINGS-SITTING.md), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Protocols
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